Shifting the mind into lower gear can bring better health, inner calm, enhanced concentration and the ability to think more creatively.

every living being, event, process or object has its own inherent time or pace, its own tempo giusto.

Keibo Oiwa, the author of Slow Is Beautiful.

In the war against the cult of speed, the front line is inside our heads. Acceleration will remain our default setting until attitudes change. But changing what we think is just the beginning. If the Slow movement is really to take root, we have to go deeper. We have to change the way we think.

In our fast-moving modern world, it always seems that the time-train is pulling out of the station just as we reach the platform. No matter how fast we go, no matter how cleverly we schedule, there are never enough hours in the day.

Fast Thinking is rational, analytical, linear, logical.

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

This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage.

Workplace stress is not all bad. In limited doses, it can concentrate the mind and boost productivity. But too much of it can be a one-way ticket to physical and mental breakdown.