[[Books Index]] [[Slow living]] [[Article - Slow down, its what your brain crave]] # Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) - Your Highlight on Location 260-261 | Added on Saturday, October 8, 2022 9:50:02 AM “As I was listening to you, I suddenly realised how easy it is for all of us to get infected by the impatience of the modern world,” he says. “Lately, I must admit, I have been praying too fast.” ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 265-267 | Added on Saturday, October 8, 2022 9:51:00 AM “Prayer is not meant to be a shortcut,” says Monsignor Schlag. “The whole point of praying is to slow down, listen, think deeply. If you hurry prayer, it loses its meaning and power. It becomes an empty quick fix.” ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 273-275 | Added on Saturday, October 8, 2022 9:52:57 AM he believes our addiction to the quick fix has physiological roots. The human brain has two basic mechanisms for solving problems, which are commonly known as System 1 and System 2. ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 290-291 | Added on Saturday, October 8, 2022 9:54:59 AM delivered, move on to the next thrill. In the cost–benefit calculus of neuroscience, System 1 offers maximum return for minimum effort. ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 316-317 | Added on Saturday, October 8, 2022 9:59:15 AM [[System 1 vs System 2 Thinking]] In The Optimism Bias, Tali Sharot argues that belief in a better future fosters healthier minds in healthier bodies. ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 320-321 | Added on Saturday, October 8, 2022 9:59:51 AM bias affects the way we tackle problems. When you slip on the rose-tinted spectacles, the easy quick fix suddenly looks a whole lot more plausible. ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 322-324 | Added on Saturday, October 8, 2022 10:00:33 AM our habit is to reach for fixes that have worked on similar problems in the past, even when better options are staring us in the face. This bias, uncovered in study after study, is known as the Einstellung effect. ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 326-326 | Added on Saturday, October 8, 2022 10:01:07 AM aversion to change. ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 325-325 | Added on Thursday, October 13, 2022 1:47:09 AM Einstellung effect ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 342-347 | Added on Thursday, October 13, 2022 1:49:24 AM “Legacy is now a big problem for us, too,” he says. “You make a massive investment to solve a problem and suddenly the problem is surrounded by a huge number of people and systems that want to justify their existence. You end up with a scenario where the original source of the problem is hidden and hard to reach.” Rather than change tack, people in those circumstances usually plough on with the prevailing fix. “It is scary to step back and deal with the idea that your old solutions may not even work, and to contemplate investing time, money and energy in finding better ones,” says Kütt. “It’s so much easier and safer to stay in your comfort zone.” ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 368-369 | Added on Thursday, October 13, 2022 1:52:11 AM What all this underlines is an alarming truth: the human brain is chronically unreliable. The optimism, status-quo and confirmation biases; the lure of System 1; the Einstellung effect, denial and the legacy problem – ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 386-390 | Added on Thursday, October 13, 2022 1:55:45 AM When did you last have the time to take a long, hard look at a problem at work? Or even just to think deeply for a few minutes? Never mind tackling the big questions, such as where you want to be five years from now or how you might redesign your workplace from the bottom up. Most of us are too distracted by a never-ending blizzard of trivial tasks: a document to sign, a meeting to attend, a phone call to answer. Surveys suggest business professionals now spend half their working hours simply managing their email and social media inboxes. Day after day, week after week, the immediate trumps the important. ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 408-410 | Added on Thursday, October 13, 2022 2:06:11 AM he published Never Too Late to Be Great, which shows how the best solutions in every field, from the arts to business to science, usually have a long gestation period. “By glossing over the fact that it takes time to produce anything of quality, the self-help industry has bred a generation of people that expect to fix everything tomorrow,” he says. ========== Carl Honore - The Slow Fix_ Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed-HarperOne (2013) (Unknown) - Your Highlight on Location 408-410 | Added on Thursday, October 13, 2022 2:06:21 AM