 Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How To Create A More Peaceful, Simpler Life From the Inside Out
This book was a gift from my boss to all of us in
our software development group, back in 2001. As
a person who suffers from fairly pronounced A.D.D.,
I found the insights in the book to be absolutely
life-changing. It's not a self-help book, full of
abstract theories and obscure philosophies. Rather,
it shows us how to recognize the two main ways our
mind works for us and, occasionally (often, for me),
how one of the two ways can work against us, if we
let it. Recognition leads to the ability to master
the choice of which mode to "operate in", with great
and immediate results.
It's an easy read, doesn't try to "sell" you anything,
and begins producing rewards from the moment you open
it. I re-read "Slowing Down to the Speed of Life"
every two years or so.
I highly recommend this wonderful book!
 Rehashed Buddhism
Rehashed Buddhist philosophy presented as a new arm of psychology. It's not that the advice isn't truthful, there's just no practicality in the book. No technique, no exercises to achieving a state of presence. My summary:
Every chapter is exactly the same...
- Statement: [a certain situation] will be better if you just "slow down to the speed of life"
- Examples of people that court stress messing up [said situation]
- Examples of people that take it easy thriving [in said situation]
That's basically it. Chapter after chapter encouraging you to slow down and enjoy life. Unfortunately, it never suggests how one can actually make that happen. The book basically expects Joe Stress to achieve a zen-like state by just willing it. It encourages you to put decisions "on the back burner" so that your creative mind has a chance to work - that's little help to people who face real world pressures. I don't see how the authors expect someone confronting a deadline to basically ignore their problems in the expectation that one morning in the shower the perfect solution will pop into their heads.
It's also very repetitive and will re-use their signature phrases ("slowing down to the speed of life") until they have no impact. The book showed a lot of promise in the first chapters, it just never delivered.
Slowing Down to the Speed of Life
It is a Book that all of us we should take a look! If you really would like to find inner peace and understand yourself better as a Human Being in this Complex society This book is definetely for you!
slowingdown to the speed of life
this book is amazing, changed complete my way of thinking.
I gave it as a gift to two friends, and they loved it.
One of them is very busy as a mother and professionally, she has a musical school.
This book put our thoughts together, give inner peace and we learn to manage our lives without stress
A MUST READ !!!
I read this book during a stressful semester of college while I was also running my own business. After I started reading this book my stress levels dropped 80% in just a day...and stayed that way. There's some REALLY great advice in this book about how to think in such a way that you limit stress and enjoy more of life. An AWESOME book!!
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