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“Slow” and “lazy” are completely different. “Slow” does not necessarily mean that one is not doing one’s work. Take your time to do one thing efficiently and well. Work can be done in a much more creative way and human relationships can be improved, raising the overall quality of time. In the 250 years following the Industrial Revolution, everything has accelerated. Of course it brought a lot of advantages; however, it becomes obvious now that it brought many more disadvantages. Therefore, the “slow” movement within the global village is accelerating with tremendous speed.
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Confucius (551–479 bce) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, and sincerity.
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Downshifting is a social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape from the rat race of obsessive materialism and to reduce the “stress, overtime, and psychological expense that may accompany it.”
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sohn, d., Jang, HJ., Jung, T. (2015). The Era of Sensibility and the Delicacy of a Slow Life. In: Go Slow and Curvy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14854-0_2
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