Lack of time: we are suffocated by haste

Lives in a hurryWasted lives, and wasted time. While we don't spare ourselves fiddling with our smartphones (we look at them on average 200 times a day), we have stuck our lives in the tunnel of always going, no matter what. quickly. The result is that, with thisanxiety, an hour lasts less, five to fifteen minutes, and so we waste precious timeThis statistic was certified by a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research, which, after eight experiments conducted in laboratories and in airport waiting rooms, discovered how much time we waste because of the damned rush.

RACING LIVES

We are sure that the time Does it always slip out of our control because we are overwhelmed by commitments that we cannot keep? Are we sure, for example, that running, run, running, always out of breath, even when we should be light and calm and not just in a hurry, for example at the time of make a gift to a person, is it a sentence without appeal to which we must resign ourselves?

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LACK OF TIME

A third of the Parents complains that they are “burned out”. More than 61 percent of people who carry out a professional activity confirm that they “never have time“. 28 percent of parents, in this case we are talking about boys, are forced to pretend a problem to avoid having to deal with it propertyAt this point there is a doubt on which we must seriously reflect: perhaps the real problem is that we no longer know how to govern, manage, and even measure, time. So we are suffocated by it, and we do nothing but waste it, even using it badly, to the detriment of our balance psycho-physical.

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ANXIETY FROM HURRY

Some time ago the weekly The Economist, he asked himself: «Why are people in such a hurry and always in a rush»? And why in the world of work «the constant problem has become the lack of time"? Yes, time. Every moment seems to slip away from us, as if we can't grasp it, and so we live in constant, chaotic haste. To the point of losing the pleasure of things.

A first cause of lives in a hurry concerns the working times which, generally, have increased. Particularly in the United States, where each worker's productivity is a tenet to secure a salary and job, the average employee uses only half their vacation time, and 15 percent of them never take vacation. The result is that work has thus reduced the space for private life, and time, scarce, has become a precious resource, with the constant worry of wasting it. So the equation is: more work, more well-being, less time for oneself. Secondly, in the long cycle ofindividualism Time has increasingly been equated with money. Remember those Anglo-Saxon lawyers' offices where the hourglass counts the minutes of each meeting with the client and then invoices them? Well, our professional life now generally reflects this pattern. And the pace of workdays is becoming increasingly hectic. Producing anxiety and sometimes loneliness (even relationships take time and cannot be neglected). With the wealth paradox, according to which people have more money but less time to spend it.

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DON'T BE IN A HURRY IN LIFE

Third factor of lives in a hurry: the technology. Or the application multitasking where we all do multiple things at once. Think about emails, how many we receive and write continuously, trying to force a response within 24 hours, with the unwritten rule that the sooner the better. In fact, multitasking and haste have become synonymous, and belong to the same style of life. In these conditions the real luxury that each of us can achieve is to take back the time, recover it from the dead-end of haste and make it available again to us. Never having time, on the contrary, is a sign of regression. And sometimes self-destructive stupidity.

HURRY FAMOUS QUOTES

• "How do you reach a goal? Without haste, but also without respite." Wolfgang Goethe

Get vaccinated and protect yourself from hurry It doesn't mean slowing down too much. Or getting lost. When we have a goal to reach, a desire to fulfill, a dream to realize, it takes the necessary time, combined with a constant dose of willpower.

• "Haste is the worst enemy of pleasure." Hermann Hesse

Excessive speed leads to the evaporation of pleasure. Aesthetic and sensual. Think of a painting, a landscape, but also the most complete of acts of...loveIf you do all this in a hurry, the pleasure will be minimal. You're wasting it.

• "Haste breeds error in everything." Herodotus

Syllogism documented by facts. Haste often leads toerror, and it's not always fixable.

• «Hurry slowly» Emperor Augustus

Festina lente was a favorite maxim in the wise dictionary of Emperor Augustus. It indicates the right balance between speed and timeBetween realizing and thinking.

• "Those who go too fast usually stumble." William Shakespeare

Haste, like a race that goes on for too long, even when we are tired And we have to slow down. It could even end in the most trivial of accidents: tripping. And at that point we'll have to find the strength to get back up.

HOW NOT TO WASTE TIME AT HOME, IN THE OFFICE, OR WITH YOUR FAMILY

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