6 Ways to Slow Down and Save Time | World of Psychology

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6 Ways to Slow Down and Save Time

By MARGARITA TARTAKOVSKY, M.S.
Associate Editor

Moving by the seat of our pants isn’t that helpful for efficiency. For one, rushing can mean making silly but time-consuming mistakes, like misplacing important items, locking your keys inside the house or glossing over errors at work.
And we might miss out on life altogether. “When things go too fast, we aren’t cognitively able to process the information, so a lot of our lives literally whizzes by,” according to Christine Louise Hohlbaum, author of The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7.
Below, Hohlbaum shares several helpful tips on slowing down and saving time.

Time Space Compression

Time Space Compression:
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"This one world, works increasingly faster, leading to the common understanding in Wall Street that 24 hours is a very long time in the world of international finance (Harvey). This is especially true considering that in one second, a bank computer can switch millions of dollars from one national currency to another in response to a slight fluctuation in exchange, and in the process gain millions of dollars out of nothing. This serves as a prime example, and almost the culmination, of the capitalist dream of ever-shortening turnover time. For the production process can be bypassed and spatial barriers skipped altogether via electronic banking systems which profit off of speculation."