I go slowly because I find it easy to get anxious when I don’t. And anxiety leads to making stupid mistakes.
My Dad goes slowly because he has narcolepsy and is perpetually tired. Time moves more quickly for him. Plus, if he tries to go fast, he makes mistakes.
My grandpa is slow because he can’t walk that well. He’s also declining mentally. And he has a tremor. If he goes too fast, he makes a mess–another mistake.
In my life, it seems that the one common feature is not making mistakes.
Sounds like me! I bust ass, get done, then go kayaking in the summer.
I had a guy request a quote for some work he wanted done. I gave a very reasonable quote and he turned me down, offering much less. He said he knew he was my only customer for the day. He was, but what he didn’t take into account was that I’d rather go kayaking than work for minimum wage.
The time is 3:39 let us ssee how long this message takes me. I have wondered the same question "Why are slow people slow?"Mainly, I wonder because I am slow. Whenever I read I have to read one word at a time and analyze what it means. By the time the sentence is done I do not know what the implications are because i spent so much time decoding each word. Mainly, I believe the answer boils down to two categories: Mentally Challenged or deficits and Depression.
Usually Mental deficits trigger ongoing depression. Think about it, how would you feel if you was mentally challenged and you had to always be outperformed in any aspect? This would make you depressed after a persistant or consistent time frame. Yea, and some of you fast people think it is funny that a person of this nature has a hard time doing anything, so you guys, including the government take a poop on him/her. Would any fast people be proud to be in this world if and be soooo happy to be soo slow. Sure us slow people will get right to it, we will work faster than you guys, but remembersince we have to think slow we will make alot of messes, because we do not know what we are doing (mental deficits). This can make you depressed. And some fast people can make it look believable because they are fast and smart and can play actor better. But the difference is a slow person is usually depressed or mentally unstable. And people wonder why there are murderers. You can not push a mentally challenged person, because they have nothing to lose anyways.
I believe the government should not allow dumb slow people to breed, if they do the parent should be exhiled. Fast people have better success in the basic life physiolgical needs such as marriage, socializing, and decent income,all because they were lucky to be born fast. (they got the ace I guess, or is it the one eyed jack(or is the one eyed jack wild because wild people breed and end up with kids that only have one eye , hence half a brain.)If it wasnt for dumb slow people there would be no fast smart people, maybe this is why the government wants and pretty much sets up dumb people to have kids, to help lower the national debt
But to answer your question us slow people are slow because we are depressed about being mentaly challenged or just plain depressed because life sucks. How would you feel? Would you act any different if you was slow(mentally challenged).
The time is 3:59. Is 20 minutes too long to type this page?
Please not this is when i talk at my fastest when I am talking about myself, because thats all I know. Also if anything was disorganized it is because i am scatterbrained and when trying to explain something i tend to talk AB…HI …LM…CD etc.
Hold on. I’m almost done with a response to this.
I kind of have the opposite view. I see people rushing around and I wonder why. Right now there’s a lady who keeps rushing by my desk, rushing to the elevator and then has to stand there to wait. In the morning I see people rush off the bus, rush into the building and then I catch up to them waiting in the same elevator line I have to wait in.
I want to say to them “relax, you’ll still get there even if it takes you 30 seconds longer”.
For years my bumper sticker read, “Stupid people shouldn’t breed”. My intended audience didn’t understand it.
Slow? This is a two year old thread, I’d say that flatbread was indeed slow in his/her/its response.
At this speed it will take them two hours to watch 60 Minutes.
I used to work with a mechanic who appeared to be agonisingly slow, yet he finished his work faster than anyone in the shop and it was always perfect. He simply was old but knew how to make every move count. On the other hand I have worked with speed demons who take forever to finish something because of all the back tracking they do. I quess we have to look at the final product to really judge how fast or slow someone is.
i’m extra-sensitive to this because i’m a cook. people in the grocery store drive me bonkers.
Some people have no inclination to ever optimize their routine. Some of this is people just getting into a rut, but I think some people don’t even know how to optimize.
Suppose you’re doing laundry. Since the dryer is the slow part, you want to make sure it’s running all the time. So when a load is done, you don’t fold right away–you dump the clothes into a hamper, move the wet clothes from the washer into the dryer, start the dryer, load more clothes into the washer, start the washer, and then fold. It’s all about parallelization, but some people never figure this out (or don’t care).
Of course, this is on top of general slowness, though I’m not sure the two are correlated.
Wow. That post made me feel bad for you, flatbread. I can understand why thinking of yourself that way would make you sad. I would say that if you’re moving at your own speed and doing your best, don’t give any consideration to what others think about you. People find ways to take a crap on other people for lots of things, not just slowness, and regardless whether the criticism is fair or not. Best to assign zero value to insulters and get on with the business of living.
I really admire the people who can go at warp speed and keep it all together because I can’t. My brain just fires at much slower speeds. Which probably explains why I’m much more comfortable with written exchanges like email and message boards than in phone or face to face conversations. My conversation partner is always wondering why I take so long to answer him; it’s because I’m *thinking *about what he said and how I really feel about the matter and that takes a little while.
Gender?
Yea, but I guarantee that almost all of the people with slow response times are from the poor class, unless there are two or more sources of income in the household. And even then, the household is usually nowhere near the middle of the middle class. Using Middle Class (40k-100k).
Nowhere near, ok maybe near.
I just wanted to see if any slow people out there feel the same way, about the fast people. Slavery still exists, its not about color anymore, its about class. Most of the poor class performs manual labor(slavery). Professional Athletes make millions. (If they are more apt and love sports, then yea they should play, but not make 10-50 times as much as the upper middle class) You might say they get hurt, but there is a con to every career. When will the world come together as one, set the same goals of moving to another habitable planet, and change a few things that is wrong with society?
New restrictions
Ban alcohol, cigarrettes, all drugs, take away our gunrights (only allowed to have one per person for protection at the homefront) Limit 2 children to per person, after violation of 3, mandatory fallopian tube tying or vasectomy. Fixed income per person 42k for40 hrs a week.
Lets say everyone came together, everyone went to school, and by the time they were old enough to know what interests them career wise, They took the path. Kind of like try outs or tests to find the qualifying,after unqualified 3 times,try another path. after 20 successive path fails, the gov. will do something for you and tie them tubs or snip the cord.IF nothing interests you( you dont want to work), the gov will give 30K per person and tie them tubes or snip the cord. Then the world would have a higher probability of interested people, and more time(less wars), motivation, and money(fixed income) for finding other habitable planets.
The gov would pay for any injuries occured by any person. And there would be some people that would not want kids(in that case) only 1 right would be allowed to be given to a person that wanted 3, since the population would still increase exponentially.
But many middle, middle class- upper class will not go for this, because having more money than most people is what makes them happy. _EVIL
Killing animals_EVIL
Lower class slavery(manual labor w/ low pay)-EVIL
most ppl want the feeling of dominance, so they will never change, even if its for the good of world
When will this world swap sides??
2 children per person- whats wrong with that?
Fixed Income-whats wrong with that?
Interested in their job-whats wrong with that?
society of interested ppl- “”
unity for all
KAYAKER:
Maybe not everyone in your intended audience understood the bumper sticker, but Im sure at least one person did(me if I had seen it)
Since this thread first appeared, Scientific Evidence has emerged that slowness correlates with increased risk of earlier death.
*"Scientists reporting in The Journal of the American Medical Association say that older adults who typically walk 1 meter per second or faster live longer than expected. A walking, or gait, speed of 1 meter per second is equal to 3.28 feet per second.
Walking speed can be an important sign of someone’s overall health. A slow walking speed may be due to multiple causes including heart, lung, or nervous system problems, or even joint pain. Several studies have suggested that a person with a walking speed slower than 0.6 meters per second (less than 2 feet per second) may be at increased risk for poor health and function.
Stephanie Studenski, MD, MPH, of the University of Pittsburgh, analyzed the collective results of nine previous studies to determine if walking speed explained survival differences among older adults and whether it could be used to predict longevity…
The survival differences were especially notable among patients age 75 and older. The predicted 10-year survival rate varied greatly with walking speeds, from 19% to 87% in men and from 35% to 91% in women."*
I just love this study because I am a fast walker, constantly having to navigate around slower people at work.
This is interesting. As a person who has struggled with depression most of my life, I can state that the better I feel, the faster I move, think and react. When I felt the worst, I basically slept all day, and struggled to get up the stairs. When I felt the best, I ran up those same stairs two at a time.
A bit more recently: Walking Speed Could Indicate Early Signs Of Dementia and other mental health issues.
You need to go climb a mountain or volcano with a group of 8 -10 people. You’ll soon discover that everyone has their own internal speed. The longer the hike the clearer it becomes. You soon learn that it is nearly as torturous to try and go faster, as it is to try and go slower. People start out as couples, adjusting their speeds to stay together. But three days in, they meet up at the campsite at days end, as it’s grueling and hard for hours, it’s essential to you go at your own pace, in my experience.
Since my experience doing exactly this a few times I find I have endless patience for the slower moving. They can’t help it, any more than I could take on their pace.
I have always been a speedy, skinny girl, working in service was a good fit but only exaggerated it. Now I’m of am age where I find I really do have to go slower. I really do have to pace myself. And I’m finding it extremely frustrating and depressing. But what’s to do? That’s what comes, you gotta just embrace it and carry on regardless.
I came in here to complain that my husband is slow, only to find that I already came in here two years ago and complained that my husband was slow. It’s not laziness. I’ve never seen anyone work as hard as he does. He’s just set to a different speed.