Is it merely coincidental that this topic is also on Anand Sanwal's email today (CBInsights) where he mentions the following:
I’m always impressed by people at our events who can take a question and spit out a really cogent, crisp, and thoughtful answer. But maybe those folks aren’t the norm? Derek Sivers has a great essay about being a slow thinker. I am a slow thinker too, the downside to this is that sometimes there is no one to listen to the response you have thought of and it may be a while before you get the opportunity to deliver it. my 1 cent. Cheers, Kavita On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Venkatesh H R <hrvenkat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agreed 100%. Echoes of Daniel Kahneman’s work here on fast and slow > thinking which has incidentally informed a lot of my work in the > disinformation space. > > There’s also Paul Salopek’s Slow Journalism (he’s walking through India > presently for Nationals Geographic) and even apparently a Slow Fashion > movement. > > Am in favour of slow everything! > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:29 AM Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > Very interesting point. The part that had the most resonance is "Your > first > > reaction is usually outdated". > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Udhay > > > > https://sivers.org/slow > > > > I’m a very slow thinker > > 2016-08-26 > > > > When a friend says something interesting to me, I usually don’t have a > > reaction until much later. > > > > When someone asks me a deep question, I say, “Hmm. I don’t know.” The > next > > morning, I have an answer. > > > > I’m a disappointing person to try to debate or attack. I just have > nothing > > to say in the moment, except maybe, “Good point.” Then a few days later, > > after thinking about it a lot, I have a response. > > > > This probably makes me look stupid in the moment, but I don’t mind. I’m > not > > trying to win any debates. > > > > In fact, I’ll tell you a secret. For most of those interviews at > > sivers.org/i, they sent me their questions a week in advance. I’d spend > > hours writing down answers from different perspectives, before choosing > the > > most interesting one. Then once we were in a live conversation, I’d try > to > > make it sound spontaneous. > > > > It’s a common belief that your first reaction is the most honest, but I > > disagree. Your first reaction is usually outdated. Either it’s an answer > > you came up with long ago and now use instead of thinking, or it’s > > triggering a knee-jerk emotional response to something that happened long > > ago. > > > > If you take some time to think it through, you might find that your first > > reaction wasn’t current and true. Or if it was, then you can say so with > > more conviction. > > > > Point is: When you’re less impulsive and more deliberate like this, it > can > > be a little inconvenient for other people, but that’s OK. > > > > Someone asks you a question. You don’t need to answer. You can say, “I > > don’t know,” and take your time to answer after thinking. > > > > Things happen. Someone expects you to respond. But you can say, “We’ll > > see.” > > > > And maybe, through example, you can show them that they can do the same. > > > > (Can you imagine how the world would work if this was the norm?) > > > > -- > > > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > > -- *Kavita Jhunjhunwala* *Digital Lead & Founder* *Avocado Tree Digital Pte Ltd * *www.avocadotreedigital.com <http://www.avocadotreedigital.com> * Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/avocadotreedigital> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/16185428/> *SG: +65 8499 7403 * *IND:+91 99868 77769 *
