It is great to be noted by Carl Honoré at Slow Planet.
Carl Honoré: First impressions, and the next step….
We’ve already heard from Slow initiatives that weren’t even on our radar before. For instance, I love the sound of these Slow Thinking events in New Zealand.
Carl’s website leads with a good clarification of ‘slow’:
Slow is not about doing everything at a snail’s pace; it’s about working, playing and living better by doing everything at the right speed.
This applies as much to thinking as to other aspects of life. The genious of the Slow Thinking Movement is that we use a simple way of getting people together to help each other think better by thinking at the right speed.
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I love the idea of “thinking at the right speed”. I find as a parent I am often asked to think about too much, too fast and to do it on the fly. I am actively working to first get myself to slow down and share that process with others.
I teach a lot of parenting and family classes and one of my goals is to get mothers to see that “multi-tasking” is a myth. Uni-tasking is where we should be in order stay connected to the people and the tasks at hand.
I blogged about it on the Slow Planet blog in the parenting blog section of things.