Doing Things Slowly
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Doing Things Slowly
Now I’m trying really hard to slow down. Pay complete attention. Lately I’ve internalized there’s something so sacred about focus, rather than constantly deliberating between monitor screens and plans and side hustles. Depth rather than breadth. In a world that is increasingly accelerating — social media eyeballs and immediate gratification and a p... See more
In the case of rushing, the problem is not only one of speed. Our attention is riveted on ourselves — our needs, our deadlines, our desires — so there is no attention to give to those around us. Especially for children we need to slow down so that we can give them our attention, which they require as much as food and sleep.
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If our foot is perpetually on the gas, it’s hard to take stock of where we are in this process — how we feel, how it’s going, what comes next.
The Big Break
Slow productivity, more than anything else, is a plea to step back from the frenzied activity of the daily grind. It’s not that these efforts are arbitrary: our anxious days include tasks and appointments that really do need to get done. But once you realize, as McPhee did, that this exhausted scrambling is often orthogonal to the activities that m
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