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The Neuroscience of Slowing Down to Accomplish More
Rushing is a false economy
When I was little, my grandmother always told me, “Less haste, more speed.”
I really didn’t get what she was trying to tell me. On first hearing it, I thought it was a contradiction to state that less going fast actually meant more going fast — I couldn’t wrap my head around the difference between haste and speed.
But then I was the kind of kid that did everything at 100 miles per hour, and that was something I took into adulthood with me.
In my first career in the hospitality industry, I was always rushing, and I was always super stressed. I had a team of staff underneath me, but I hated delegating, stuck in my belief that if you wanted something done right then you needed to do it yourself.
I left that industry aged 29, exhausted and desperate for change in my life.
I learned better
When I decided on a career change and went to University, I studied Cognitive Neuroscience. I began to learn so much that explained who I was as a person, and why I had been so stressed and depleted in my first career.
Knowing what I had been doing to my brain, I had to change my approach.
