Think Slow and Change Quick
Colin Baron
"The real need to make changes, often with limited time availability, can put pressure on us to cut corners"
I always want things done yesterday. Implementing change, and the thrill of achieving new things, energies me. Opening my mouth too quickly and then later engaging my brain is something that occasionally gets me into trouble. Sometimes in a lively discussion, as I am talking, I have the frustrating ability to change my mind and finish a sentence holding a different opinion. This can apparently be very confusing for those engaged in the debate.
Again I am challenged with a Deresiewiez comment - “I used to have students who bragged to me about how fast they wrote their papers. The best writers write much more slowly than everyone else, and the better they are, the slower they write. James Joyce wrote Ulysses, the greatest novel of the 20th century, at the rate of about a hundred words a day. T. S. Eliot, one of the greatest poets our country has ever produced, wrote about 150 pages of poetry over the course of his entire 25-year career. That’s half a page a month. So it is with any other form of thought. You do your best thinking by slowing down and concentrating”
As I write this blog I realize that I live in the world of fast communication. Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, text, and 24hour news encourage us to make comment first and think second. The real need to make changes, often with limited time availability, can put pressure on us to cut corners. This limits our creativity and ultimately the diligent implementation of those ideas.
Comments
Colin's Profile
Colin leads Christ Church Manchester (CCM), a new church on the east side of the city birthed out of a passion to see significant churches planted in each of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Colin also travels internationally for the Newfrontiers team, encouraging and equipping church planters as well as coaching leaders and developing teams in established churches.