Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
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In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by showing how much of your own time you are prepared to give to them.
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Slow culture is what causes us to behave the way we do—our shared beliefs and values—and fast culture is a reflection of a community’s beliefs displayed in how society functions (most often seen in rituals, language, art, music, and film). Fast culture is typically ephemeral (a new diet trend or slang word), and slow culture occurs over long stretc
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