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Think Slow | No Mercy / No Malice
Too often, we optimize for the numerical thing, time and speed. We’re not optimizing for the emotional state, which is disquiet or anxiety.
With advertising, you can rebrand time: “Good things come to those who wait.”
With advertising, you can rebrand time: “Good things come to those who wait.”
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
What’s surprising about these results is that we typically celebrate great entrepreneurs and leaders for being strong-minded and clear-sighted. They’re supposed to be paragons of conviction: decisive and certain. Yet evidence reveals that when business executives compete in tournaments to price products,19 the best strategists are actually slow and
... See moreAdam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
It’s called Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind. It’s a book that addresses a danger that has been developing in our society for several years. This danger is based on three separate wrong beliefs. The first is the belief that being decisive means taking decisions quickly. The second is the belief that fast is always better. The third is the belief that we s
... See moreJohn Cleese • Professor at Large: The Cornell Years
I can’t continue doing a bunch of speedy things but just go a little more slowly. Speed is a pathogen. Live in a speed-laced environment long enough, and before I know it I’m tripping over my own feet and debating a cocaine habit.
Slowness is a result of curating an environment that cultivates slack instead of speed, perpetuates ease instead of urge... See more
Slowness is a result of curating an environment that cultivates slack instead of speed, perpetuates ease instead of urge... See more