For about the first 45 years of my life, doing things slowly was an option I overlooked.
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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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what's an example
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The one that reminded me of this phenomenon was pretty mundane: parking in a confined space.
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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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If you have to do things fast or not at all, then anything sufficiently hard gets done not at all.
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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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“slow is smooth and smooth is fast”
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52 is not old. Now you've learned 2 things.
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there's a saying in Russian - the slower you go, the further you get
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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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Learning to cook early is a great way to understand this lesson. Applies to many creative activities IMHO.
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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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a great advocate of the slow movement is
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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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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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it's been known long. E. G., Tai chi. Slow should be taught.
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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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And with parenting doing things slowly is a requirement for many tasks.
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