Think slow to move fast

Urgency without direction is just panic in business casual

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu

The faster you move, the less you can see. The less you see, the more stays unknown. The more that's unknown, the more you're in fear. The more you're in fear, the less you can do to help people. And you gotta do something.

Expedient action requires deliberate thought. When you think slowly, you can move more quickly.

You're not always resourced to respond. You can't solve every problem the moment you discover it. You can't internalize every concept the moment you hear it. Like a sliding puzzle, you need space in your mind to move things around.

Paradoxically, some things need time to ripen. It may have to get worse before it gets better. Let time bring solidity to the form. Then can you heft the problem with both hands.

But once you do slow down, the payoff is counterintuitive: you move faster in the long run. You skip the false starts. You avoid the rework. You sidestep the traps. You build solutions that solve the real problem, instead of making bandaids that collapse under pressure.

Moving slowly isn't passive—it's strategic patience. The world wants you dizzy with urgency. But urgency without direction is just panic in business casual. Slow your mind first. The rest will follow, and faster than you'd think.