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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 1 Mar 2017

    One of the things I've only learned since I became old (52) is that some tasks you thought were hard become easy if you do them slowly.

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      2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 1 Mar 2017
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        For about the first 45 years of my life, doing things slowly was an option I overlooked.

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 1 Mar 2017
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        I still think it's better to err on the side of fast than slow, but you do miss some edge cases that way.

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      2. Ilya Sukhar‏ @ilyasu 1 Mar 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        what's an example

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 1 Mar 2017
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        The one that reminded me of this phenomenon was pretty mundane: parking in a confined space.

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      4. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 1 Mar 2017
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        But if you want a more inspiring example, it works well to slow your expectations for progress when working on very hard things.

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      5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 1 Mar 2017
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        If you have to do things fast or not at all, then anything sufficiently hard gets done not at all.

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      6. Ivan Kirigin‏ @ikirigin 1 Mar 2017
        Replying to @paulg @ilyasu

        seems related to the universally good advice of just jumping into a big task. Do a small part to start right away

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      1. Samuel Gil‏ @samuelgil 1 Mar 2017
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        “slow is smooth and smooth is fast”

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      1. Nivita‏ @nivitav 1 Mar 2017
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        52 is not old. Now you've learned 2 things.

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      1. George Kronberg‏ @george_kronberg 1 Mar 2017
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        there's a saying in Russian - the slower you go, the further you get

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      1. Paul Chiusano‏ @pchiusano 1 Mar 2017
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        Any sort of deep design work. Impossible tasks become easy if you keep tugging on something and letting best ideas bubble to surface.

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      2. Carlos Ribeiro‏ @carribeiro 1 Mar 2017
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        Learning to cook early is a great way to understand this lesson. Applies to many creative activities IMHO.

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      3. Carlos Ribeiro‏ @carribeiro 1 Mar 2017
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        It's impossible to hurry up a good dish and make it faster. Adding more people or a larger flame usually ends up in disaster.

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      1. Tejas Pahlajani‏ @tejasp84 1 Mar 2017
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        a great advocate of the slow movement is @carlhonore

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      1. Joe Cloud‏ @joeblueskies May 1
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        That's why it is a good thing to try and learn a musical instrument when you are young!

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      1. Christopher H Cope‏ @copecd 4 Mar 2017
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        With severe anxiety I make an inductive argument to convince myself I'm capable of each step, then just one step at a time...

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      1. Alex Zuzin‏ @zvozin 1 Mar 2017
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        it's been known long. E. G., Tai chi. Slow should be taught.

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      1. Paul Chiusano‏ @pchiusano 1 Mar 2017
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        Whereas if you rush design, you "get it done quickly", but as you build on it, it starts crumbling or generates needless complexity

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      1. Kirk Byers‏ @kirkbyers 1 Mar 2017
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        And with parenting doing things slowly is a requirement for many tasks.

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