From the course: Extreme Focus for Effective Performance
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Thinking slow
From the course: Extreme Focus for Effective Performance
Thinking slow
- These days, it feels like everything moves so quickly, popular culture and technology seem to celebrate speed over depth. You too may fall into the trap of equating speed with the quality of your thinking. The faster you come up with something the better it must be. If so, you need to consider the virtues of thinking slow. Slow, deep thinking is deliberate and immersive. Slow thinking takes effort. Slow thinking is procedural. It's where you study and monitor the development of skills that allow you to deliver a great tennis serve, 90 plus percent of the time. Slow thinking is what drives learning a musical instrument or anything complex. Slow thinking is needed for writing, correcting, and editing. It takes energy to focus and focus to think deeply. Deep thinking is deliberate, immersive. Almost paradoxically, slow thinking sets up the conditions for high performance when it counts most, deep learning…
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