Sometimes slowing down is how accuracy catches up with ambition.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Speed hides errors, both because you do not see them and because you are past them before they surface. Ambition supplies the pace, and accuracy falls behind, so you end up moving quickly in a direction that has quietly gone wrong. Slowing is not a loss of drive, it is the point at which quality is allowed to catch up with intention.

Take one piece of work you have been rushing and give it a slow pass with no other task open. Look for what you skimmed. The corrections found this way are usually cheaper than the ones found later.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What mistake did speed cost you recently?

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