On Slowness, and Why It Matters

By Marguerite Sol — 12 min read

There is a particular kind of attention that only slowness affords. It is not laziness, nor is it inefficiency — it is a deliberate widening of the aperture through which we notice the world.

“The unhurried mind sees what the hurried mind runs past.”

Reading, like walking, rewards those willing to take the longer route. It is in that extra length that meaning tends to gather.