Big Ideas

Relationships – slow is fast  and fast is slow

  1. Military: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast
  2. You can’t connect with people when you are going so fast
  3. Chat, hang out, gossip

Thinking fast and thinking slow

  1. Your best ideas occur in the shower
  2. Time pressure is very useful in the short term.
    • Narrows our horizon
    • We focus on short term thinking
    • We become less creative
  3. Oscillate between the 2 modes

Controlling the rhythms of life

  1. Bring back the art of tempo
    • Don’t just operate on one gear – the 5th gear
  2. Get back in touch with different tempos
  3. Have the courage to change tempo when you need to
  4. Fight the taboo that you have to always be fast.
  5. We have to impose our reality onto the world rather than let it impose it on us
  6. Proactive vs reactive
  7. Reflective vs constant action

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