From the course: Improving Your Thinking
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Taking your time
From the course: Improving Your Thinking
Taking your time
- Ask someone what makes technology so great, and one of their answers will likely be "it makes things so much faster." That's part of why we love it, right? For example, getting to San Francisco from Atlanta where I grew up by foot would take you almost two months. But going by plane, it's only five hours. And we love speed, even when it comes to thinking or decision-making. We say that someone is quick or fast as a way of calling them smart. And if you ask someone for advice on how to stand out at work, you'll probably be told to find some way to make a process faster or more efficient. And that last thing is the kicker, efficiency. While incredibly useful, it's often in tension with what makes for great thinking, patience and care, or as they're otherwise known, slowness and inefficiency. After this lesson, you'll be able to take your time with thinking, which sets you up to have thoughts you can really be proud of. So there are small risks to focusing on speed when you're…
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