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Everything is so fast now, everything is so disposable now, there's no time to build up a career like we used to have in the past.

Life's picking up speed.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Everything moves way too fast.

Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.

'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.