Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind—Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less, Guy Claxton,

Nadolny, Sten. The Discovery of Slowness. Revised edition. Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2003.

Technology, meanwhile, has allowed work to seep into every corner of life.

What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.”

Fast Thinking is rational, analytical, linear, logical.

Perhaps the greatest challenge of the Slow movement will be to fix our neurotic relationship with time itself.

It will also depend on the economic case for saying no to speed. How much, if any, material wealth will we have to sacrifice, individually and collectively, in order to live Slow? Are we able, or willing, to pay the price? And to what extent is slowing down a luxury for the affluent? These are big questions that the Slow movement must answer.

In some philosophical traditions—Chinese, Hindu and Buddhist, to name three—time is cyclical.

Companies also pay a heavy price for imposing a long-hours culture. Productivity is notoriously hard to measure, but academics agree that overwork eventually hits the bottom line.