You are slow.

And so am I. It’s a good thing, but it can be frustrating. We are slowly being conditioned by tech that speed is good. Page load times, shipping times, instant communication. Tech can’t go fast enough.

But people are slow. And, really, being slow is a good thing.

We need time to think and to get comfortable with ideas. We like to hear the context behind the initiative. We like to ponder options. We like sitting around and talking. We like to sleep on it.

But the pressure is to be faster. Faster with those emails. Faster analysis. Quicker to action. Get it done now!

At work, speed pressure makes us anxious. In the rest of our life, speed pressure makes us cautious. Only bad investments are the ones you have to buy now, right?

So, why is slow good? Slow is how we make better decisions instead of more decisions. Slow naturally works at separating the urgent from the important. Slow gives problems time to solve themselves without our effort.

If we look around, it’s only tech that is fast. Everything else in the natural world is slow. Maybe there’s a reason…