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Addicted to Speed
- Speed and efficiency are the promise of modernity. But speed and efficiency are all destination and no journey. And it is journey that gives life meaning.
How do we reclaim the joy of doing something slow and difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest? If more effort is wasted doing things that don’t matter (doomscrolling for hours) th... See moreErikc Perez-Perez added
- I can’t continue doing a bunch of speedy things but just go a little more slowly. Speed is a pathogen. Live in a speed-laced environment long enough, and before I know it I’m tripping over my own feet and debating a cocaine habit.
Slowness is a result of curating an environment that cultivates slack instead of speed, perpetuates ease instead of urge... See moreBrandon Dang added
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blog
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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.
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- As the world gets faster and faster, we come to believe that our happiness, or our financial survival, depends on our being able to work and move and make things happen at superhuman speed. We grow anxious about not keeping up—so to quell the anxiety, to try to achieve the feeling that our lives are under control, we move faster. But this only gene... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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