Carl Honore: In praise of slowness
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- www.ted.com MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results.
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This needs more exposure. Not only is constant societal speed exhausting, fewer and fewer people learn how to be patient.
Yes........
The content of his talk was excellent and thought provoking and very insightful ..but ironically rushed given he had 2O minutes I've just bought his book so I'll read it at my own pace ...In a world that expects and seeks to do alot of things on the hurry up.This does come with a price !!
I feel so vindicated after listening to this. People have been viewing my tendency to take my time to do things in a negative light for years. But I have always realized that my best work, creative or otherwise, is done when I am not overloaded and having to rush things down. Thanks a million.
"Never confuse motion with action." - Ernest Hemingway
Another irony is how Carl tends to speak very fast despite the topic being discussed. Kidding aside though, this is very informative.
"Situ in Finland: most people here work 8-hour (+30min lunch) days. "
No, actually from observing from "next door" Finns have much more spare time for friends, family and leisure. I moved to St Petersburg Russia from the USA 4 years ago and found I work hard but still have more time for culture, friends and exploration than I ever had before. Family friends and work come in that order and everyone else does the same.
I've totally digged this book since the year 2006 when I first ran across it at a public library in the US.
HI Carl - very inspiring and very simple message ~ I love your humour & humanness. I arranged yesterday to talk with my daughters principal about her fading spark, so the educational research you refer to really helps my "case" thank you. We generally have a slower pace of life here in New Zealand than Uk and a lot of people are not addicted to rushing around which makes it easier to slow down and smell the roses.
You want slow social media? Choose Google+. It's like a desert. Nothing ever happens there.
Well, it’s gone now...
Legend
Death does come soon. All the more reason to slow down and appreciate life while you've got it.
I would like to slow down and wish the calm melody would be eternal....but it is heartbreaking that no matter slow things are...time will still go by.
man, you speak pretty fast for a guy who invite to slow down >.
antotto You must not know at Ted Talks they only have a designated amount of time to dispense information. Their is a clock on the stage.
Makes my heart pound.
change the playback speed to 0.75x then.
@@zendavis3501 he could reduce his words
He also finishes quite fast. But I agree with his message.
Great TED talk - I used it in a recent blog post on Slowing Down, on Nextstarfish
The description is wrong on this video.
Life is like a train on rails. Can only go forward, right or left, cannot turn around perhaps don't go through the life so fast....
Slow is the way to go! Thanks for the reminder, Carl! I needed to hear this message today!
November 2020 - glad I found this!!!!
Yeah he's got a point. I do best when i work slow, but when there is deadline the next day, I work at hyperspeed. It has always worked out lol.
Why do people automatically judge everything and find the faults in something before even thinking things through? Instead of considering the meaning of the speech, you pick on anything that might make you seem superior to those ideas. Most likely because you know it concerns you and don't want others to find anything wrong with your ways, which is what he explicitly pointed out.
😁😂Options > playback speed >
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I did it, reduced the speed to 0.75. In all fairness, he had 20 minutes to speak at TED.
Oh, watch the video - Alabama - "I'm in a Hurry and Don't Know Why" it's a great song and speaks to this issue.
he is describing exactly what's going on in every day life
When all the world is a screaming, fast-moving, complex pile of cacophony, there is real value to be found in quiet, slow, stillness.
funny, i'm watching this for my uni exams and reflect on myself having been studying 12 hours a day for the past almost 2 months and doing nothing else apart from that. really smart guy that one.
It was really inspiring and it took me in deep thought, because I thought being fast would make me more productive, but now I feel I was wrong.
This is beyond amazing
Is moving quickly, though - sacrificing the quality of life we could have otherwise had - really the most appropriate reaction to an eventuality?
You know, I was thinking why I cannot play classic adventure games as cleverly as in the past. Or I am not so good and check the solution and then I facepalm myself because the answer was in front of my face but I used the walkthrough. From all the computer games, adventure games need patience, a zen state, where you take your time to think, not being eager for fast solutions, staring at the same background screen for 20 minutes, not rushing to get more and more graphics and story. I remember Myst. I never was able to play it in the past. It looked so dull and you had to take your time to understand how to solve it. Sometimes we play modern game when we want instant action, and even in the rush gameplay like FPS, they become more casual, just a waypoint to see more graphics and end the story. No exploration, no taking your time, either it's adventure games or modern action games. But I think, adventure games is a kind of genre, I could still use to get myself used to a more relaxed state, slower thinking, calmer existence.
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Another TED talk by Susan Cain: "The Power of Introverts" could be relevant to this - In the US, our culture tends to value extroverted ideals, which are all about high levels of stimulation. More, more, faster, faster.
take our time. slow pace life is the best. why hush rush? everyone will get there.
I can definitely relate to this talk.
I was going to switch to watching something else but then the message hit home and I watched the whole thing
But don't get me wrong, his wisdom is to be appreciated. People in a big rush don't get very far.
Ironically enough, he speaks really fast.
Its so great. In the exactly moment, I think about this and I guess is necesary live slowly. But I have a question for my personal life: how make bussines slowly in a fast world? I am crazy trying stop all day and every day.
Very good. If your mind doesn't slow down, your body will suffer from it and you will be forced to slow down. I developed fibromialgia what I believe was my body's cry out for help. Well, in the end, I had to pay attention, to be aware and get off the ramster wheel
Eduarda Marques I notice before the lockdown I did a job where I was expected to be fast. I look at pictures them and I look tired. Now I look better that I don’t have to do such job where I am expected to work faster than I can.
Eduarda Marques I feel I am lucky we had a lockdown as it’s made me realise what I can and can’t do more. Also probably prevented me from getting a long term illness as I think the job was slowly making me more ill. Also had bad, long lasting, stomach aches on the job.
Still not free from the 'speed trap' perhaps. He makes some really good points though.
Crazy how we haven't learned a thing yet...if anything everything is getting faster!
@TED i just noticed the description of this video does not match. Please correct!
People really need to live slower.
I was reading the comments at work, but kept the video for watching later, I didn't want to put sound or microphones there. So, I encounter the fast talking and can't stop laughing out. I can't watch the video after thinking about the irony. I seriously can't stop laughing when I try to watch it. Hahaha!!!
This is like I am watching an Onion parody, Talks.
Optimus6128 I was thinking along the same lines. I wanted to yell at him, "Slow down you idiot, you're fucking up the message!"
Perhaps the reason is in the TED format. Speakers are only afforded twenty minutes to explain their concept. It might actually be 18 minutes. And there's a clock right at the front of the stage.
slowing down helps with social anxiety and stresses
I had to speed this up because I have an assignment due on this speech soon.
This is fact...... I know this... This actually had happened with me..... Losing efficiency when just work hard without enjoying it...
I LOVE this message. But boy does he talk fast. But fair enough, public speaking is scary. :)
Alana, I slowed the playback speed to .75, and for me, it was a much more pleasurable listening experience. When I’m interested in what I’m hearing, I like to have time to absorb and process the information. Thank Goodness CZcams allows us control over playback speed!
If you want a fictional metaphor for this, then Momo by Michael Ende is the perfect example, IMO.
The point isn't cramming as much as you can into your life. Example: If you want to cram a lot of music onto a Compact Disc you compress it, but the more you compress it the more quality it loses. Sure, you might have more songs on there, but is there greater worth in my songs or better songs? Not everything is meant to be fast regardless of how scarce time is. Death is also nebulous. I could die tonight, but that doesn't mean I should cram the the next 60 years into 12 hours.
I'm studying for my higher physics exam with this in the background.
35 to 40. rather 35 than 40 if you calculate down from the wikipedia anual workhours chart
21st Century version of spreading "the good word". Resoundingly successful as it should be.
Sponsored by BMW, how fitting :)
Yes quite 😂
Situ in Finland: most people here work 8-hour (+30min lunch) days. This is the standard here as it's in most western countries, I guess.
He’s soooooo handsome! 🥰
Take that "timed tests!"
I'll definitely endorse slower sex though - my latest love just does it naturally (we're both rather young and not at that exploration into different methids yet) and I can't tell you what a massive difference it makes!! It's heaven! :)
We can't slow down because of lending interest and land monopoly
Miriam W. slowing down for me helps me focus more in quality and feels more better. But I think it’s an individual thing. Some people are fast, some are slow. There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
@@PeteS_1994 So true. Some of my friends go through life at what seems to me to be the speed of light. It’s not bad, people are just wired differently. IMHO, if we could all see and respect the benefits of all types, we could all give ourselves permission to be at ease living at whatever speed suits us best.
15 years later, it's still the same issue...but worse. More kids are being onboarded into technology with the likes of TikTok delivering snackable content which influences how kids these days see themselves (driven by the need to align themselves w all of these supposedly 'successful' influencers, wc lead them to want success/fame fast). This has to be made known more.
Very true! It got much worse! Incredible how we don't learn...
Gotta admit...I did fast forward through some of this.
Muy buen mensaje ,pero muy rápido para ser lento
The inner tortoise :)
I was eating fast food while watching this.
There has to be an irony here that I watched this on 2x speed.
wrong description, Fab Lab is another speech
me listening to the video and skipping to finish my hw fast🐸🐸
WTF with that laptop reading "Who is this idiot, and what's with the dodgy haircut" in the background? 😛😀
but all the time? that's emotionally and physically draining.
Except maybe the part about "It's a simple idea with powerful results." :)
11 people rushed to the dislike button
his is just wonderul :)
Well, yes, and I appreciate that. However, just because it comes naturally, doesn't mean you should necessarily do it. To some, violence to small animals comes naturally; doesn't mean they should give in to that natural tendency.
I write this as a fast person who's slowly (heh!) learning to be slower, and I can say that it's very much worth it!
Any one after ballatha pahayan...
I thought he was wearing a bag pack all along.
Very quickly
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this doesnt really have to do speaking. its more about your lifestyle. hes not going to talk like a slow person.
Watching this in 2x speed XD
yeah Fatimus, really! His message is on point, but when I first heard him on an NPR podcast I thought for a minute I might have to listen twice to absorb everything he was saying! lol
Is it bad that I listened to it at 2x? 😂
This was a very good, albeit long speech - please cut it down to three minutes and five seconds ;-)
ha ha ha....nobody got the joke in his first sentence....
+Dino Salas I did!!
I personally get a high when there is more going on, more being experienced. We keep murderers and rapists in a room where the only torture is the draining of their time.
Competing with Eminem for most words in a minute..
Who alse is watching this in 1.5x speed?
wow.. Better be speed reading then... lol
who else is watching this on 2x speed?
Eckart Tolle would fit the slowness movement very neatly. I guess his speech and the slowness objectives are not on the same page. He's too fast by default.
Huh? How was Japanese culture efficient? The feudal system was incredibly inefficient in many ways. Which ancient times? Japan doesn't go back all that far.
haha!
i wish he would talk slower.
Brazil is a slow down country? i bet he dunno that most brazilians need to work 8-10 hours per day and allways act as if they know what they r doing, because if we don´t, there is someone else that can take our place.
He really should slow down his speech a little.
he talks too fast... yes i'm serious. he even says he does/did.
I like his talking pace
i agree jaqies.
Şaka mi bu😦 bu ne hiz...
He is good but hipocrat. He never mensioned Japan, one of the slowest yet efficient culture of ancient times.
even the music in the introduction is too fast and sounds quite frantic, actually. Maybe also try meditation or Buddhism. How can I take him seriously when listening to him speak so quickly actually is a little bit stressful.
is your partner obsessed with making a lot of money? people who work hours like that tend to want a lot of money
He preaches it...but it sure doesn't look like he adheres to it...
In fact, he's hyperly annoying.
Really bad audience.