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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
I started wanting to skim the pages but that seemed wrong somehow.
I very much appreciated this book. I found it to be balanced and fair - the author, while claiming our world is running too fast (a truth), searches out people and places that are slowing down in all areas of life. He does not pass judgment on the speedy folks, nor does he claim that slowing down is all we need to do. He believes there is a middle way -- and I'm all about the middle way!
Since I read this while home with a small child and my life had slowed down to a level that was almost untenable for me, I tried to take it as a gift, so reading this was a good exercise. In the end I hope I benefited from that slower time.
We do indeed read to know we are not alone.
Since I read this while home with a small child and my life had slowed down to a level that was almost untenable for me, I tried to take it as a gift, so reading this was a good exercise. In the end I hope I benefited from that slower time.
We do indeed read to know we are not alone.
Some food for thought. Will definitely make a conscious attempt to slow certain aspects of my life down.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Some very well researched thoughts on the value of slowing down in all areas of our lives. The author outlines how life can be so much more enjoyable when we take the time to savour the moments, rather than rushing through everything frenetically.
With regards to this book it is more about the advised philosophy than the strength of the writing. I picked this up because I was interested in the Slow Movement. One of my favourite subjects was that of time, the opening subject, which started off well with the following paragraph - What is the very first thing you do in the morning? Draw the curtains? Roll over to snuggle with your partner or pillow? Spring out of bed and do ten push ups to get the blood pumping? No, the first thing you do, the first thing everyone does, is check the time. Page 17.
In my opinion it was one of the strongest subjects and made me think about my own relationship with time.
"Boredom - the word itself hardly existed 150 years ago - is a modern invention." This sentence really made me stop and think. 'I'm bored' is a term I have heard with increasing frequency each year. I only have to think back to when I was a child, and how the more technology developed and the less time we spent outdoors, the more bored we got, and to look at my young cousins now who are glued to their DS's which once the battery dies have absolutely no idea how to amuse themselves. It seems we have all forgotten how to slow down and simply be alive rather than constantly trying to maintain a state of hyper stimulation.
"Thanks to speed we live in the age of rage."
This rang truer for me than I would like to admit. I'm embarrassed to think of all the times I have huffed and puffed and gotten angry just by getting stuck in traffic or if I have to line up somewhere for more than a minute, not to mention if my Internet is lagging, having obviously completely forgotten what it was like when the first modem came out...When I think back on all the times I have gotten angry, most of it has been over nothing. Really. What does it matter if you have to wait a few minutes? After reading this I changed my ways. I know longer mind waiting. Instead I do some deep breathing, day dream about the newest hunk on True Blood or simply have a gander at what is going on in the world around me - birds finding twigs, children playing games, a leaf dancing on the wind etc. Slowing down has made me happier and calmer.
What I didn't like about this book was the chapter on music; it dragged on far too long and was very repetitive. Some chapters too suffered from repetition.
I also lost respect for the author on the chapter of Tantric sex. It might be a personal bias, but I could not understand how he could go back to the second class WITHOUT HIS WIFE. He went on to say, that although he performed the night's exercises with another woman (including touching her in places to see how pleasurable it was for her etc) it was all completely innocent. I mean honestly, he couldn't skip one night and wait until the next to go back with his wife to experience non-sex-induced orgasms??
After that I didn't really enjoy hearing his personal slant on everything and would have preferred he stay neutral and merely inform me of the different fields of the Slow Movement.
In my opinion it was one of the strongest subjects and made me think about my own relationship with time.
"Boredom - the word itself hardly existed 150 years ago - is a modern invention." This sentence really made me stop and think. 'I'm bored' is a term I have heard with increasing frequency each year. I only have to think back to when I was a child, and how the more technology developed and the less time we spent outdoors, the more bored we got, and to look at my young cousins now who are glued to their DS's which once the battery dies have absolutely no idea how to amuse themselves. It seems we have all forgotten how to slow down and simply be alive rather than constantly trying to maintain a state of hyper stimulation.
"Thanks to speed we live in the age of rage."
This rang truer for me than I would like to admit. I'm embarrassed to think of all the times I have huffed and puffed and gotten angry just by getting stuck in traffic or if I have to line up somewhere for more than a minute, not to mention if my Internet is lagging, having obviously completely forgotten what it was like when the first modem came out...When I think back on all the times I have gotten angry, most of it has been over nothing. Really. What does it matter if you have to wait a few minutes? After reading this I changed my ways. I know longer mind waiting. Instead I do some deep breathing, day dream about the newest hunk on True Blood or simply have a gander at what is going on in the world around me - birds finding twigs, children playing games, a leaf dancing on the wind etc. Slowing down has made me happier and calmer.
What I didn't like about this book was the chapter on music; it dragged on far too long and was very repetitive. Some chapters too suffered from repetition.
I also lost respect for the author on the chapter of Tantric sex. It might be a personal bias, but I could not understand how he could go back to the second class WITHOUT HIS WIFE. He went on to say, that although he performed the night's exercises with another woman (including touching her in places to see how pleasurable it was for her etc) it was all completely innocent. I mean honestly, he couldn't skip one night and wait until the next to go back with his wife to experience non-sex-induced orgasms??
After that I didn't really enjoy hearing his personal slant on everything and would have preferred he stay neutral and merely inform me of the different fields of the Slow Movement.
I read this book slowly and I wouldn't have it any other way
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
El libro trata sobre el modo de vida "slow". Va describiendo y ejemplificando como algunos ámbitos de la vida se van convirtiendo en slow, por ejemplo, la medicina slow, los restaurantes slow, ciudades slow, etc. Me pareció interesante, aunque algunas cosas me parecieron realmente poco prácticas.
Lo entendí como una movida para vivir más tranquilos. Como siempre, los extremos no me parecen buenos. Sin embargo, creo que sería ideal que todos tomemos algunas inspiraciones de la movida slow para calmar el frenetismo del mundo en el que vivimos.
Como siempre, y habiendo observado tal frenetismo en mi trabajo, y gente que se quedaba casi a dormir en la oficina, el capítulo del trabajo slow me llegó. Ojalá algún día se puedan poner esas ideas en práctica para que todos puedan cuidar su vida y su familia.
Algunos capítulos sin embargo, me parecieron un poco pesados o demasiado fuera de la realidad.
Lo entendí como una movida para vivir más tranquilos. Como siempre, los extremos no me parecen buenos. Sin embargo, creo que sería ideal que todos tomemos algunas inspiraciones de la movida slow para calmar el frenetismo del mundo en el que vivimos.
Como siempre, y habiendo observado tal frenetismo en mi trabajo, y gente que se quedaba casi a dormir en la oficina, el capítulo del trabajo slow me llegó. Ojalá algún día se puedan poner esas ideas en práctica para que todos puedan cuidar su vida y su familia.
Algunos capítulos sin embargo, me parecieron un poco pesados o demasiado fuera de la realidad.