Carl Honoré : In praise of slowness

Carl Honoré at TEDGlobal 2005
In praise of slowness  (transcript)
Summary
In Japan, there was a plan that was Yutori-kyōiku and there is Premium Friday to try to carry out Slow life.

Yutori-kyōiku was a Japanese education policy which reduces the hours and the content of the curriculum in primary education. However, it's failed.
People didn't know about its true meaning.
Japanese education was only to remember a lot of things without discussion and teachers were struggling because they were very busy without holidays.
Reduced the hours and the content of the curriculum have to turn into the hours where students and teachers can discuss or do something creatively or spend their families, but they were in poor.
Premium Friday is that government recommends ending work at 15:00 every last Friday each month to spend more enriched lives.
However, last Friday each month is the busy day and people work on Saturday and Sunday in Japan. We can't use it and we think that only people working in the government can use. 

We have to know that there are bad slow and good slow that is the new revolutionary idea.
We're hurrying up through our lives and we think that it's better to do many things faster.
However, We have to hear our inner voice from our bodies or notice around us from our environment.

When we think about our daily life, work style, health, and relationships, we don't have time to think what we have to really do now.
Our lives are not racing and the most important measure of the success in our lives is feeling that our relationships are a lot deeper, richer and stronger. It must start from knowing what true meaning is to praise of slowness.

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