I can't stop thinking about this:

Fast gets all the attention.

Slow has all the power.

If you're feeling everyone around you is moving faster and achieving more while you're being left behind—take a breath. That narrative is bullshit.

The constant pressure to compress what takes decades of work into days is a mirage.

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But as society accelerates, something shifts. In more and more contexts, patience becomes a form of power. 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

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Peck’s insight here – that if you’re willing to endure the discomfort of not knowing, a solution will often present itself – would be helpful enough if it were merely a piece of advice for fixing lawnmowers and cars. But his larger point is that it applies almost everywhere in life: to creative work and relationship troubles, politics and

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