Carl Honoré

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237 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Something You Should Know · How Slowing Down Makes Life Better & Why Every Brain Needs Music · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And yet... Too much speed, too much hurry is the enemy

of productivity and creativity.

People start making more mistakes.

Their imagination falls off a cliff.

There are all kinds of reasons to slow down.

Actually, in a world addicted to speed, slowness is a superpower.

Well, a lot of us these days are stuck in fast forward.

So we're racing through our lives instead of actually living them.

And I had my own personal wake-up call when I started reading bedtime stories to my son.

And back in those days, I just couldn't slow down.

So I'd go into his room at the end of the day and I would speed read Snow White.

So I'd be skipping lines and paragraphs.

I became an expert in what I call the multiple page turn technique where you try and see, but it never worked, right?

Because my son knew the stories back to front.

So he'd always catch me out.

He'd say, you know, daddy, why are there only three dwarves in the story tonight?

What happened to Grumpy?

And this was just a really lamentable state of affairs.

I knew this should be the most intimate, magical moment when a dad sits down to read to his son, but it had become in my life a war between his slowness and my speed.

And I got to the point where I was flirting with buying a book I'd heard about called The One Minute Bedtime Story, so Snow White in 60 Seconds.

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