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http://www.carlhonore.com/blog/

1) Slow cities: gülleri koklamak ve birbirini dinlemek için vakti olan insanlar
2)Kendilerini preoccupy etmeyen insanlar
3) Kendilerini rush etmeyen insanlar
4) 'I don't do slow very easily. I have a nasty habit of doing too many things at once and not giving things my whole attention.' Kylie Dunn
5) meditating
6) 'stop multi-taking - this will include a whole heap of things like not watching TV while we eat dinner, not playing with the ipad while I watch TV, and only checking email at work when it is convenient for my tasking (so closing Outlook until I'm ready).' Kylie Dunn
7) 'stop eating lunch at my desk at work - taking an actual lunch break and leaving my desk, and when possible the building.' Kylie Dunn
8) 'enjoying slow food - the slow food movement is about cultivating, cooking and consuming food in slow ways. That means we get to take advantage of the farmers' markets around here to get the fresh, organic produce; find recipes that are about enjoying the preparation and cooking of the food; and then consuming the meals in a slow and purposeful manner. We won't eat like this for every meal, but we will at least do this on the weekends.' Kylie Dunn
9) 'relaxation - I will make time to relax in my day. Hopefully this will be achieved by taking a proper lunch break, not multi-tasking and meditating, but if this is not enough then I'll need to make more time to relax (walk Lily, read, bookbinding etc.' Kylie Dunn
10) Giyeceklerini daha yavaş ve özenerek seçmek
11) 'I guess that I have just become so used to the email alerts and working on multiple tasks at the same time that it just seems like second nature.I have had periods in my working life where I have moved away from being a slave to my emails and tried to become more focused on my tasks, so it's not like I've never tried this before.' Kylie Dunn
12) 'I left the office at lunchtime every day last week, even if it was only for 15 minutes, and the one day I sat at my desk to actually eat my lunch I made sure I wasn't using the computer.' Kylie Dunn
13) 'We made time to take Lily to the beach twice on the weekend, which was very relaxing' Kylie Dunn
14) 'I've meditated twice, about 15 minute guided meditations. I think that this is a little more practical for me to set a goal of meditating for a little longer a couple of times a week, rather than 5 minutes every day.' Kylie Dunn
15) 'The only other thing is that I'm now not sure how to fit everything into my days if I can't multi-task. So I've decided that housework will go by the wayside at the moment :-) Seriously though I do find myself having to think a little harder around scheduling things' Kylie Dunn

16)' We've also had quite a slow weekend, today we took a long drive exploring the coastline near us and going to local markets. I'm two-thirds of the way through this activity now and I think that it has certainly had an impact. Nothing mind-shattering or life-altering at the moment, but I do think that I am feeling more relaxed and I guess a little more focused on what I'm doing.' Kylie Dunn
17) 'Having said that I am very happy with the things that I did achieve, and overall I do feel like I was more present and considered in the activities I was undertaking in these 30 days.' Kylie Dunn
18) 'Meditation - I think I've made enough comments about how this hasn't been working so well for me in previous activities. It was a little better during this one for two reasons. Firstly, I didn't plan to do this everyday, which was significantly more realistic. Secondly, and more importantly, I stopped trying to meditate properly. By this I mean that I remembered that meditation is a mindfulness exercise and whilst it required things to be quiet so you can focus on trying to focus on nothing, it doesn't require me to really be in a darkened room shut away from everything.

So meditation has become something that I do whilst walking from the car to work, or while washing the dishes or hanging out the laundry. I've tried to make it more about focusing attention on clearing the endless chatter in my mind and less about where and how I do that. Yes, I have still done some standard meditation as well, but incorporating the process into some of the mundane, daily rituals of life has made it easier for me to practice. I'm calling it pragmatic meditation - not the ideal way to do it, but the way that works for me' Kylie Dunn

19) 'Slow Food - we did this a couple of times on the weekends. We went shopping at the farmer's market twice during the 30 days and had a couple of lovely meals that really practised the principles of slow food. We had done this a little with 30 days of an Asian diet as well, and it is something that we need to remember to do more regularly, because it is nice to be mindful about preparing and consuming food, rather than the usual quickly cook and eat that we do of a weeknight.' Kylie Dunn

20) 'Relaxation - this was generally achieved with the other tasks that I was doing, but there were some days that I had to focus a little more on making time to relax. I would generally think about this as I was driving home from work in the afternoon, whether I felt that I had taken time to relax during the day or if I had to do something in the evening. Having that little bit of focus on making time to relax does shift your thinking, and I think this is something I will try to keep in my mind as well.' Kylie Dunn
21) 'mindfulness around trying to single-task and be more in the moment was enough for me to feel more relaxed and renewed' Kylie Dunn
22) His books, In Praise of Slow and Under Pressure (Slow parenting) have been translated into more than 30 languages and have landed on bestseller lists in many countries. Published in 2013, Carl’s latest book is calledThe Slow Fix. It explores how to solve problems in every walk of life, from business and politics to health and relationships, without falling for short-term, superficial quick fixes.
23)

Is there a Before and After in your life concerning Slow life? What made you change?

Absolutely, yes.

I have definitely changed – there is for me a very clear Before and After. Before I was always trying to do more and more things in less and less time. I was all about speed and quantity. I felt hurried all the time. Now I approach each thing seeking to do it as well as possible instead of as fast as possible. This has made a big change in the way I feel about time: I no longer feel a slave to it. I feel like I have enough time for things and I never feel rushed (even though I have an exciting, full life). This is not a paradox. It’s about finding the right equilibrium and not being obsessively neurotic about time.

24) My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of one-minute bedtime stories – Snow White in 60 seconds! – to read to my son. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I’m even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That’s why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

25) No man is an island and when we start slowing down we have to take account of the impact on people around us. That involves warning friends and colleagues, explaining why your are going to do less, unplug your technology more, and ask for more time for work assignments. I was afraid at first that this was going to alienate people, and initially some were skeptical. But very soon people began to understand that they could no longer reach me 24 hours a day; that I wasn’t going to say Yes to every social and work offer; that I might like a bit more time for a job. What I found is that people around me, after a time of watching me slow down, began to implement similar changes in their own lives.

26) The important thing to remember here is that most of us are trying to do too much. A first step to slowing down is to do less – to prioritize the things that are important and let everything else go. When you do less, you don’t feel so much pressure to go fast.

Explaining why you are going to slow down is essential. Together we all need to tackle the taboo against slowness. If you make the case the Slow means better, people understand – and are more willing to accept your deceleration than if you just slowed down without explaining.

27)Slowing down takes away the constant stress about timekeeping. It allows us to rest and recharge our bodies and minds. It improves our diet and the environment we live in. And it strengthens our relationships and communities.

28) Slowing down brings an inner calm. This is good for mental health but also for thinking more creatively. It also gives you time and space to reflect deeply and ask the bigger questions: Who am I? What is my role in the world? And that brings a greater depth and meaning to life. It also creates a more cohesive society where people are interested in the welfare of others.

29) Slowing down allows us to be more efficient. We make fewer mistakes and better decisions. It also gives us greater pleasure. We live our lives instead of rushing through them. We are able to take real pleasure from things. As Mae West famously said: “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”

You don’t have to quit your job, move to the country and grow organic carrots to join the Slow movment. You can be Slow anywhere because Slow is a state of mind. It is a like changing a chip inside your head.

30)Slowing down allows us to be more efficient. We make fewer mistakes and better decisions. It also gives us greater pleasure. We live our lives instead of rushing through them. We are able to take real pleasure from things. As Mae West famously said: “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”

You don’t have to quit your job, move to the country and grow organic carrots to join the Slow movment. You can be Slow anywhere because Slow is a state of mind. It is a like changing a chip inside your head.

31)Being always connected takes a heavy toll: it eats into our private time, it keeps us distracted so that we think less well, and it tires us out. 
32)Human beings need moments of silence and solitude – to rest and recharge; to think deeply and creatively; to look inside and confront the big questions: Who am I? How do I fit into the world? What is the meaning of life? You cannot daydream or reflect when your mind is constantly wondering if you have a new whatsapp message or if it’s time for a fresh tweet.
33) Being “always on” also makes it hard to stop and stare, to smell the proverbial roses. We miss the details, the fine grain of the world around us when our eyes are glued to a screen. We lose the joy of discovering things on our own, or by chance, when we stick to routes prescribed by a GPS download. When travel involves firing off a stream of texts, tweets and audio-video footage to friends and family back home, we never completely immerse ourselves in a new place
34) The truth is that communicating more does not always mean communicating better. In playgrounds across the world, you see parents using phones while spending “quality time” with their children. Surveys suggest that a fifth of us now interrupt sex to read an email or answer a call. Is that seizing the moment, or wasting it?

We need to strike a balance with technology. That means finding the discipline and imagination to use it more judiciously. To switch on when it can bring us together and enrich our lives. But to switch off when old-fashioned, face-to-face communication – or even just a little of silence – is called for.

35)Here are some tips:

1. Set aside some time every day when you switch off all gadgets. No exceptions. And no backsliding.

2. To neutralise the anxiety we feel about switching off, tell your friends and colleagues that you will not be available 24 hours a day so that they can work around your new tech schedule.

3. Schedule some outdoor activity every day and leave the smartphone behind. Nature acts as a soothing balm.

4. Keep a diary or a running count of your screen usage for a week. Often seeing in black and white how much time we pour into technology is enough to make us scale back.

5. Experiment with leaving home without a phone charger. That way you are forced to use the phone more sparingly to avoid running out of power.

6. Set aside half an hour of screen free time before bed and after waking up. This will give you the time and space to shift out of roadrunner mode and into a more healthy rhythm.

7. Ringfence slots during the day when you switch off the gadgets.

8. Switch off your notifications (Instagram, Whatsapp, etc). That way you decide when you see an update rather than being constantly distracted.

9. Build some slow, tech-free activity into your day – something like yoga, meditation, gardening, reading, cooking, whatever takes your fancy.

Yavaşlık'ın kıssasından çıkan hisse şu: "Yavaşlığın düzeyi anının yoğunluğuyla doğru orantılıdır; hızın düzeyi unutmanın yoğunluğuyla doğru orantılıdır." Yavaşlık ile anımsama, hız ile unutma arasında gizli bir ilişki vardır. Bir şey anımsamak isteyen kimse yürüyüşünü yavaşlatır. Buna karşılık, az önce yaşadığı kötü bir olayı unutmaya çalışan insan elinde olmadan yürüyüşünü hızlandırır.

36) 

I know that your job requires that you travel frequently. How do you manage that this does not affect your personal life? Is frequent travel compatible with a slow life?

Yes, I think travel is compatible with a Slow life. But only if you do it with a Slow spirit! Which is what I do.

That means I limit my travel and say No to many invitations. I book enough time on the trip so I do not have to rush. I take time to get to know the local culture and people as much as possible. I never travel without a novel to read, my running shoes (jogging is a great way to explore a place) and a notebook for jotting down ideas. Lately I’ve discovered the joys of painting and have just invested in a portable set of watercolours and a sketching pad that I plan to take with me on future trips. All of this is very slowing.

37) Yavaşlık hata yapma ihtimalini azaltır. Olaylara atlama, süperegonun baskısı, çözümü hep kendinden bekleme,..

38) Also, when I return home from travel I don’t hit the ground running. If I have been on the road, once I am back I’ll take a few days off. When I am at home, I don’t work evenings or weekends ever. I generally work 10 – 6 and have breaks and lunch. Every day of the week I have breakfast and dinner with my family and often I come home early two days of the week to be with my kids.

39) 

Do you meditate or practice mindfulness? Do you think that practice some form of meditation is important when adopting a Slow life style?

Yes, I think it is essential. It doesn’t have to be formal meditation or a mindfulness class. But we all need moments when we unplug, slow down and let our minds empty. This lowers stress, enhances calm and sharpens concentration. It boosts our creativity and efficiency. It can also make us happier.

I try to find a time every day when I sit in a quiet space and just breathe. It might be an empty room at the office, my bedroom, a church in the centre of town. Anywhere that allows me to step off the crazy treadmill and reconnect with myself in peace.

40) 

Can we all – without an exception – adopt a Slow life style?… Or is it impossible for people with certain jobs or with difficult family circumstances? For example, the CEO of a big company, sales people that are always on the move, single parents with a demanding job…

Clearly some people have jobs or family circumstances that make it harder, sometimes much harder, to slow down. But I do think it is possible for everyone.

Sometimes it starts with a very small step: turning off your phone for an hour in the day; eating lunch away from your computer; taking just a few more minutes to think about a decision at work; reading a bedtime story without skipping lines and paragraphs and pages.

41)

What is your opinion about the methods we use to educate our children? What would you change in our educational systems to create slower and more conscious human beings?

I think we are doing it all wrong. We treat children like products and project instead as people. We’ve turned childhood into a race to perfection.

Many countries have turned classrooms into conveyor belts where children are stuffed with academic learning and then tested over and over again. We find it hard to sit back and just let them be. We prefer to structure, monitor and measure everything they do as though childrearing were the same as product-development. Instead of setting them loose in the park, we enrol them in organized sports or herd them into entertainment complexes to play under the watchful eye of trained staff and CCTV cameras. Even just messing about at a friend’s house has been re-branded as a “play-date.” And this is backfiring on kids in so many ways. We are now raising the fattest generation of children the world has ever seen. Athletic kids are also suffering from serious injuries in record numbers because we have professionalized youth sports.

42) Children who are under pressure to be perfect can end up less creative. They do not have the time or the space to explore the world on their own terms, to learn to take risks and make mistakes. They do not learn to think for themselves. They just do what they are told. They also don’t learn to look inside themselves to work out who they are because they are so busy trying to be what we want them to be. They can also suffer from more stress and exhaustion. And they don’t learn how to use time, or how to fill time on their own – so they get bored more easily.

43) Children who have had every moment of their lives micromanaged, organized, supervised and scheduled by adults will later find it hard to stand on their own two feet. In other words they never grow up. That is why university students are suffering mental health problems in record numbers. These days you also hear professors tell of 19-year-olds handing over the mobile phone in the middle of interviews with the words: “Why don’t you sort this out with my mum?”
44) Children need to learn gradually to cope with risk, fear and failure. If you wrap them in cotton wool, they grow up thinking the world owes them a free and easy ride. Discovering that life is harder than that can come as a huge shock if it comes all once. That is one reason that university students are going to pieces in record numbers around the world. After a childhood spent in a gilded cage placed a pedestal, they emerge from the family home unable to handle the rough and tumble of real life.
45)Children have less time to devote to free, unstructured play. This is a real problem because such play is essential for their healthy development. It knocks their brains into shape, teaching them how to think creatively, how to invent, how to get along with their peers and how to makes sense of the world and their place in it. Real play is also the best stress-buster out there

46)The umbilical cord even remains intact after graduation. To recruit college graduates, blue-chip companies such as Merrill Lynch have started sending out “parent packs” or holding open-house days when Mum and Dad can vet their offices. Parents are even turning up at job interviews to help negotiate salary and vacation packages.
47)I think we’re also in danger of squeezing out the simple, soaring joy of being a child.

What would I change in schools?

I would build education on the understanding that children learn better when they take charge of their own learning. When they are permitted to explore the world at their own pace. When they are allowed to learn things when they are ready to learn them, rather than when the system decides they should learn them. Some of the richest learning cannot be measured by exams or graphs or charts. It leaves room for a bit of healthy competition but does not turn schooling into a winner-take-all race to the finish line. It allows children plenty of time outside the classroom to rest, reflect and process what they have learned in school. A school should aim to develop all aspects of a child’s character rather than narrowly focussing on measurable academic achievement. To create rounded citizens rather than exam-passing robots. To avoid centralized bureaucratic control and return the power to individual schools to decide what is best for their children.

48)I would also ban Drive-Thrus for anyone who doesn’t qualify for a disabled parking permit. There are Drive-Thru restaurants, cafes, banks, supermarkets. If Americans got out of their cars and walked more, they =would be more Slow. In a good way.

49) 

Your last book, “The Slow Fix”, is full of examples of organizations and companies that are applying a slow approach. You say that the slow movement is gaining strength in business and society. Can you give us some examples of big companies that are using a slow approach?

Yes, absolutely.

Atos, a French global IT services and consulting company with 70,000 employees in 42 countries, is running a “zero email program.” which means email will only be used when essential. Otherwise staffers are expected to communicate by telephone or in person.

Volkswagen has tweaked its Blackberry servers so staff can no longer send or receive email outside working hours in Germany.

Empower Public Relations, a 25-employee Chicago-based PR firm, cut the smartphone cord created a BlackBerry Blackout Policy, which prohibits staff from answering calls or emails from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. weekdays and from Friday night to Monday morning.

Boston Consulting Group has also experimented with getting to switch off their gadgets

50)

What are your future projects?… and when you will come over to Spain or Latin America?

The Slow Fix has just come out so I have no plans for now to write another book. I always take a long time between books to work out what I want to write about and how. Very slow process!

In the meantime, I’m giving talks about Slow around the world and making radio and TV shows on the same theme. I’m also now giving workshops on Slow Parenting. My plan is to create other more general workshops on slowing down but I need to find the right partner to work with on this. I am also looking into creating a global prize for people who are putting the Slow philosophy into action. Might call them the Good Slow Awards.

51)Doing things slowly makes that you enjoy them more. Rather than focus on quick results, you can center on the details… and take the time necessary to do things the best way possible.

Carl Honoré has written a new book “The Slow Fix” that´s about Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed. How to find the best way to tackle complex problems in every walk of life, from health and relationships to business and politics.

52) The book uses lots of fascinating case studies and first-hand reporting from around the world to show how to tackle hard problems intelligently and thoroughly: a school in a gang-infested corner in Los Angeles; coffee growers in Costa Rica; Formula One pit crews; prisoners in a state-of-the-art Norwegian jail; a mayor who revolutionized public transport in Bogotá; fighter pilots in Britain’s Royal Air Force; and more.

Tend to be the tiny details that make all the difference. If you are focused completely on your activity you can avoid mistakes that can cause major disasters. Other items to keep in mind are: build holistic solutions, taking the time to find out that things do not work… and make them work, think in the long-term, working in collaboration 

53) Although out there you still hear people say “The faster, the better”, Carl Honoré says in his book that the Slow Movement is gaining strength. The Slow Fix is about doing things at the right speed. If we slow down, if we learn to do everything as well (rather than as fast) as possible, we can not only solve problems, work smarter and live better. We can also create a better world

54) In The Slow Fix, bestselling author Carl Honoré delivers an exhilarating model for effective problem-solving, and provides brilliant insights on how you can solve problems, work smarter, and live better. Honoré decodes how we approach problems and paves the way to better decision-making and generating long-term solutions to life’s inevitable challenges. Engaging and thought-provoking, The Slow Fix revolutionizes the way we live, work, consume, and think, ultimately increasing our wins and enhancing personal success.

With The Slow Fix, Honoré details a new paradigm for efficient, sustainable problem solving, teaching us how to use time to build expertise, take advantage of teamwork, find the right messenger to deliver our message, and much more.