Speed vs Slowness

Speed and IQ have a strong relationship

Any complex task has fast components and slower voluntary components that take more effort.

What distinguishes people is how much they have on ‘automatic’. When the bulk of what an expert does is on automatic, people say he/she has ‘great intuition’.

Tremendous effort can compensate for modest skill, just as tremendous skill can compensate for modest effort but not if either is zero. Further, the returns on additional effort are greater for highly skilled individuals.

The Virtue of Slowness

There is more to intelligence than sheer speed.. This just gives you time to complete a 2^nd non automatic component. The key is what you do with the time created by your speed.

Speed and anxiety go together.. we find ourselves skimming and scanning rather then reading every word, listening poorly.. too ready to interrupt.

Tools:

We can learn to become slow. Take one sentence in a day and think about that for a sustained time. Or read a page a week of a particular chapter.

Or you can try slow talking, slow eating… such practice will build patience.