Carl Honoré
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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I mean, good slow, it's part of the equation as much as bad slow in the same way as there's good fast and bad fast.
It's really about finding the right rhythm, the right tempo for you in that moment.
Yeah, it's hard to balance because I think the main reason it's hard to balance is that we are constantly pelted with the message that you must not slow down, that slowing down is for losers.
Slowing down means falling behind.
But if you slow down intelligently and judiciously at the right moments, you're actually going to get things done better.
And very often you'll get them done faster.
I think of this as the delicious paradox of slow, that by slowing down in the right moments in the right way, you get better results, but you often get them more quickly.
There's a military saying, slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
And that applies right across our lives.
You talked about someone at work confronting a deadline and thinking, oh no, I've got to...
I've got to put the pedal to the metal here to hit that deadline.
Well, I would argue there's a way to step back from that and rethink it.
So let's say you've got three hours till deadline.
What most people will do is power through for all three of those hours, right?
Chain to the desk, nose to the laptop, grinding it out, right?
There's the deadline three hours ahead.
I'm not going to slow down.
I'm not going to stop.
I'm going to power through to the deadline and get it done.
But you'd be far better off looking at those three hours and saying, OK, I'm going to power through for 20 minutes, then I'm going to stop.
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