Is There a Natural Pace of Living for Human Beings?
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
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue the future faster and faster.
Alan W Watts • Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
In this way, we begin to see that White Man’s time is a very real threat to human health and the quality of the human experience. The constant urgency, the relentless activity, and most of all, our radical de-synchronization with the natural rhythms of the living world—these things extract a destructive toll on the human body and spirit. Time sickn
... See moreFrank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
Working with unceasing intensity is artificial and unsustainable. In the moment, it might exude a false sense of usefulness, but when continued over time, it estranges us from our fundamental nature, generates misery, and, from a strictly economic perspective, almost certainly holds us back from reaching our full capabilities. A more natural, slowe
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
describes what happens as a result: “our lives become about the struggle to keep up.” She continues, “To truly feel our experience with depth and presence, we would have to slow down a lot (which would make us less efficient consumers, students, workers, prisoners, soldiers…).”
Tara McMullin • What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting
Our bodies have become adapted to nature over millions of years of evolution. Even though we may struggle to realize it, living in our modern society puts us in a permanent condition of stress.
Yoshifumi Miyazaki • Walking in the Woods: Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku
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 ge
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
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 ge
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