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We live in age speed. We strain to be more useful, to cram more into each minute, each hour, every day. Because the Industrial Revolution shifted the earth into high products, the cult of rate has pushed us to a breaking point. Examine these facts: Americans typically spend 72 minutes of each day behind the wheel of an automobile, an average business professional now loses 68 hours per year to being placed on hold, and North american adults currently spend on average a mere half hour weekly to making love. Living on the border of exhaustion, we live constantly reminded by our bodies and heads that the rate of life is spinning out of control. In Compliment of Slowness traces the history of our more and more breathless relationship as time passes and tackles the consequences of residing in this accelerated culture of our own creation. Why are we always in such a rush? What is the stop for time sickness? Is it feasible or even desirable to slow down? Realizing the price we purchase unrelenting rate, people worldwide are reclaiming their time and slowing down the rate - and living more content, healthier, and much more productive lives because of this. A Slow revolution is occurring. Here you will see no Luddite telephone calls to overthrow technology and seek a preindustrial utopia. This is a modern revolution championed by cell-phone using, emailing fans of sanity. The Slow viewpoint can be summed up within a phrase: balance. Folks are finding energy and efficiency where they could have been least expected - in slowing down. In this engaging and enjoyable exploration, award-winning journalist and rehabilitated speedaholic Carl Honoré details our perennial romance with efficiency and rate in a perfect mixture of anecdotal reportage, record, and intellectual inquiry. In Compliment of Slowness is the first complete look at the worldwide Slow activities making their way in to the mainstream - in office buildings, factories, neighborhoods, kitchens, private hospitals, concert halls, rooms, gyms, and universities. Defining a trend that is here to stay, this spirited manifesto can make you completely rethink your marriage with time.
