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

We all know that, right?

This whole slow movement or slow revolution is about doing things at the right speed.

So understanding that there are times for fast, but there are also times to slow things down and play with other less hurried rhythms.

Musicians have a wonderful phrase, which is tempo giusto, which means the correct tempo for each piece of music.

And that kind of gets it what this slow revolution or slow creed is all about.

It's about finding the right tempo for the moment.

And when I'm talking about slowing down, I'm really talking about something bigger than, you know, 10 miles an hour versus 20 miles an hour.

I'm talking about a mindset.

So it's about, ultimately it's about doing everything not as fast as possible, but as well as possible, which at its core is an immensely simple idea, but also at the same time, a hugely powerful one, because it can just revolutionize everything you do.

So that's why pretty much in every field of human endeavor now, you will find a slow movement, whether it's slow food, slow leadership, slow sex, slow education, slow travel, slow fashion, people coming to whatever task they find themselves confronted with and saying, how can I do this thing better?

And it drew it more by slowing down to the right speed.

So clearly you don't.

There's bad slow and good slow.

Bad slow is dragging your feet and missing an important deadline at work or failing to get to the departure gate in time to catch the flight you talked about a moment ago.

Right.

But the revolutionary idea, the idea that is just full of all kinds of good liberation for every single one of us is that there is also good slow.

Good slow is getting a good night's sleep.

Good slow is

reading a bedtime story to your child without skipping pages.

Good slow is pondering a work problem from every angle so that you make the best decision and get the right outcome.

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