Are we hiding from reality, living in an abstract dream world of what could be our future? A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading the formidable A Heart So White by Javier Marías, a haunting and slow novel about an interpreter who, as he gets married, dives into his own biography and the history […]
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Time Independence: A Personal Decision
“…for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” (Revelation 12:12) “But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.” (Michael Ende, Momo) Despite our Time Anxiety: An Introduction Much of […]
How to Live Life at Your Own Pace (Part 2): Communication and Media
Just when you thought that the Tempo Giusto series was dead, here we go again. :) For many of us internet people, finding a comfortable level of communication and media consumption is one of the major challenges on the way of reaching our personal tempo giusto lifestyle. While we enjoy the advantages and luxuries of […]
How to Live Life at Your Own Pace (Part 1): Your Speed of Mind
The first thing to do when converting yourself into a master of your time and live life at your own pace, is to check how your mind feels about that idea. Chances are, not so good. Most of us were raised in a world shockingly similar to what the great German author Michael Ende describes […]
How to Live Life at Your Own Pace: An Introduction
Although the philosophy of Slow was popularized to some extent through the Slow Food Movement and later through Carl Honoré’s best-selling book “In Praise of Slow“, many of us are unsure about how to really implement changes of pace into our 21st century high-speed lifestyle. Sometimes it seems as if Italian futurist visions from over […]