The Daily Stoic - Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast

Episode Date: July 16, 2020

"When you are talented and smart, you know what you want and you know when you want it done. You want it done now, that is. So you work fast. So you try to build momentum. So you look for ways to make efficiencies. You don’t want to waste time. The problem is that in hurrying we often end up causing delays worse than if we’d taken it slow."Find out why it so important to be deliberate in your actions in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. When you are talented and smart, you know what you want and you know when you want it done. You want it done now, that is. So you work fast, so you try to build momentum, so you look for ways to make efficiencies, you don't want to waste time. The problem is that in hurry and we often end up causing delays worse than if we'd taken it slow.

From the Roman historian Sutonius, we learned that Festina Lente was the motto of Rome's first emperor Augustus. Augustus who had two stoic teachers, Arius and Athena Doris thought there was nothing less becoming in a well-trained leader than haste and rationalist. His favorite sayings were more haste, less speed, better a safe commander than a bold, and that is done quickly enough, which is done well enough. The first one is rendered so simply in Latin that it's worth saying again,

Festina Lente, make haste slowly. It's easy to rush in, it feels good to start doing. But if you don't know what you're doing, why you're doing it and how to do it, well, it's not going to go well. If you're going quickly for the sake of speed, you're gonna make costly mistakes, you're gonna miss opportunities,

you're gonna miss critical warnings. In the military, they have another way of expressing this idea. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. In the military, they have another way of expressing this idea. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. In stoicism, we know there is no prize for doing things first and that the only thing that matters is doing them well. So slow down today, go smoothly, go with less speed and you may actually go faster and you'll definitely go. Better. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Stoke podcast. You can sign up to get our daily email at dailystoic.com slash email. I also encourage if you want to take your practice of stoicism to the next level, to sign up for Daily Stoic Life, which is our members only program.

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