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Tim Denning was one of my favorite Medium writers until last month when I read his piece, Spend One Day Doing Everything at Half the Speed. After that he became my #1 favorite writer on Medium.
I’m a slow person.
My personal bent is to do one thing at a time with quiet and freedom to take as long as I like. I could sit and do nothing but think for hours if I let myself.
But I don’t.
All my life I’ve been told to do things faster so I can do more in less time. Efficiency is king and the success of a day is measured in the checkboxes filled on my to-do list — if I decide to waste time actually writing and marking off a list, that is.
I can still hear my mom’s voice in my head when she would return home from a few hours of extroverting to find her homebody daughter in the same place she left her.
“What did you do all day?”
I would have my report ready: I did plenty. Some things I did just so I could report having done them.
There were other things I didn’t mention, though. Things like sitting staring at a half-finished dress, assembling and reassembling it in my head. Things like…
