Ep10: Getting In Touch With Your Inner Tortoise with Carl Honoré

The Working Parent Podcast

Carl Honoré is the bestselling author, broadcaster, keynote speaker and leader of the Slow Movement. He firmly believes that living in fast forward significantly damages our health, happiness, relationships and productivity. In this podcast Carl talks about how we might harness the slowness that the pandemic has forced on us and use it for the better in our future lives.

Link to Carl's TED Talk In Praise of Slowness

Links to the studies in which Carl mentions the benefits of slow in the workplace. Read these and then discuss it at work:

https://hbr.org/2010/05/need-speed-slow-down

https://hbr.org/2020/03/slow-down-to-make-better-decisions-in-a-crisis

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2015/12/05/the-creed-of-speed

Here is a link to the trailer for Frantic Family Rescue which Carl filmed in Australia. It might make you cringe but also we might all recognise a little of ourselves in this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7dxXzfy0ro&feature=emb_logo

For more information on Carl: www.carlhonore.info

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