A Slower Urgency • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

There is such urgency in the multitude of crises we face, it can make it hard to remember that in fact it is urgency thinking (urgent constant unsustainable growth) that got us to this point, and that our potential success lies in doing deep, slow, intentional work.

“In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”⁠9 PICO IYER

“slowing down and being here … reminds us of our deep ethical obligations to life over and before politics or economics and the demands they make on our performance as teachers. Through contemplation we realize that we have to take a stand, that we have to stand for something.”

leading to urgency-based thinking,

In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the future.