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1) Slow your inner pace before rearranging your outer life 2) Use analysis for known facts, and quiet reflection for unknowns 3) Notice the thought behind a feeling before it becomes your whole world
**Richard Carlson and Joseph Bailey**
*Estimated Reading Time: 75 to 90 minutes*
Your life is not too busy. Your mind is too fast. This book shows you how to slow your inner pace without quitting your job, abandoning your ambitions, or moving to a cabin in the woods. You will learn why rushing through life creates more problems than it solves, how to distinguish between productive thinking and unproductive rumination, and why the quality of your moment-to-moment experience depends less on what happens to you and more on how you meet it.
You will discover practical ways to handle stress, improve relationships, make better decisions, and find satisfaction in ordinary moments. You will learn to recognize when your thoughts are running ahead of reality, when analysis helps and when it hurts, and how to access the calm, clear intelligence that remains available beneath the noise of a hurried mind.
This book is for anyone who feels perpetually behind, even when they are doing everything right. It is for the professional who cannot stop thinking about work, the parent who is physically present but mentally elsewhere, the person who has achieved their goals and still feels empty, and anyone who suspects that the constant rush of modern life is costing them something essential.
It is also for people who have tried to slow down by changing their circumstances (taking a vacation, reducing commitments, reorganizing their schedule) only to find that the feeling of being rushed followed them. If you have ever wondered why you cannot seem to relax even when you have the time, this book offers an answer that has nothing to do with time management and everything to do with how you use your mind.
Something is wrong with the way we live. We have more time-saving devices than any generation in history. We have smartphones that answer questions in seconds, apps that deliver groceries to our doors, and calendars that sync across every device we own. And yet we feel more rushed than ever. The feeling of being behind, of having too much to do and not enough time, has become so common that we treat it as a permanent condition, an unavoidable side effect of modern life. But what if the problem is not the speed of the world around us? What if the problem is the speed of the world inside us? This is the central insight of Richard Carlson and Joseph Bailey's book, Slowing Down to the Speed of Life. Carlson, a psychotherapist and author best known for Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, wrote this book with Bailey, a therapist who had personally experienced the burnout that comes from living in a constant state of…
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Get the complete summary in the appThe feeling of being rushed is created by your thinking, not by your circumstances.
Slow down your inner pace before trying to rearrange your outer life.
Use analysis for known facts. Use quiet reflection for unknowns.
Notice the thought behind a feeling before it becomes your whole world.
Treat a low mood as weather, not a verdict on your life.
When you are stuck, set the problem aside. Insight cannot be forced.
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