"If You Go Slowly, You Don’t Just Arrive — You Actually Arrive In A Better Place"

A Conversation Between Noemi Apetri and Claudia Brose

Hi, I’m Claudia. I help you face a hurried world with greater confidence in your “Power of Slow.”

You are reading the subsection "SlowPOWER" of the publication "Un-Rush: The Power of Slow," in which I demonstrate the absurdity of rushing and help you realize how slowing down benefits your life and work.

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"If You Go Slowly, You Don’t Just Arrive — You Actually Arrive In A Better Place"

A Conversation Between Noemi Apetri and Claudia Brose

Noemi Apetri invited me to talk about the POWER OF SLOW and why UN-RUSHING creates a happier life.

The key idea of our conversation is that we see people wanting to slow down, but they are afraid or hesitant to do so, due to the pressure around us to constantly move faster. So, it’s all about building up confidence to go slow, which requires working on your self-awareness, values, and the art of paying attention.

In this conversation, you hear about:

• Why slowing down is strategic and not counterproductive.

• Why most of us fear slowness… and how to build up the courage to go against the hurry-culture-mainstream

• Why the courage to slow down starts with knowing yourself

• How Slowness is, for example, a hidden skill in sports

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When A Bad Day Becomes A Good Teacher

Or: When Antonio Saves Your Trip To The Funeral.

When your car breaks down on the highway, 400 km away from home and 100 km short of your final destination—a dear friend's funeral—you are definitely not in a stress-free state of mind. But what if I told you this disaster became a meaningful experience?

The Italian police officer who discovered us stranded on the Autostrada couldn't have been nicer, despite dealing with a clueless German (me) and my Irish American husband. It helped that my husband speaks fluent Italian. We then met Antonio from the tow truck service who didn't just rescue our car—he rescued our entire day. Loading us into his small truck, he organized our hotel, restaurant, and train connections so we could still make the funeral on time.

But here's what struck me most: Even though his job was finished, the day after the funeral he picked us up from the train station to get us to the repair shop. This time our luggage replaced the broken car on his truck bed, and instead of rushing, Antonio stopped for cappuccinos in a small village. We exchanged life stories and contact information.

When was the last time a crisis forced you to accept help—and discover the unexpected gift of human connection?

Funerals and broken cars aren't exactly fun adventures. But they are the kind of interruptions that force us to slow down—literally and figuratively. In our rush to control every detail of our lives, we forget that some of life's most meaningful moments happen in the spaces between our plans.

Maybe it's luck that brings kind people into our path during difficult times. Or maybe it's the energy we put into the world that creates these moments of grace. What I know for certain is this: when life forces us to stop rushing, we finally have space to notice the goodness that was there all along.

The next time your carefully laid plans fall apart, remember Antonio taking care of and gifting extra time to strangers.

Sometimes the detour is exactly where you needed to go.

A Mini Masterclass To Become More Confident To Flip The Hurry-Culture Script

You know that feeling, don't you? The constant nervousness in your chest. The guilt that creeps in every time you dare to pause. You've been taught that faster is better. That slowing down is laziness, inefficiency, failure.

But what if everything you've been told about speed is a lie?

The hidden cost of living in fast-forward

While you've been racing to keep up, something precious has been slipping away:

• Your ability to think deeply

• The patience to take time to listen

• Your awareness for savoring moments

• Your ability to make sound decisions and no short-circuit bad decisions

• To connect authentically with others and yourself

You are involuntarily succumbing to the pressure and hurry. You perhaps even blame yourself for not being fast enough, efficient enough, or productive enough.

What if slow was actually revolutionary?

There's a different way. A way that the productivity gurus won't tell you about because it threatens their work.

The way is strategic slowness. And slowing down isn't about doing less, it's about recognizing that in a world addicted to speed, choosing slowness is the most radical thing you can do.

This isn't another self-improvement program promising to optimize your life. This is an act of rebellion against a rushing culture crushing your life.

I am offering you a way to reclaim your autonomy and to build up your confidence to resist the pressure.

Rebel Time – Mastering the Revolutionary Power of Strategic Slowness

Become more confident to flip the hurry-culture script.

This Mini Masterclass is about

• Shifting your perspective

• Expanding your awareness

• Empowering you to push back

• Questioning the status quo

• Offering an alternative path forward

• Developing the courage to move at a pace that allows for wisdom rather than just reaction

• Doing things your way

• How to build the confidence to move at your own rhythm, even when the world demands you hurry

Here you find all the information and can purchase the Mini Masterclass Rebel Time – Mastering the Revolutionary Power of Strategic Slowness

This is for the rebels who are tired of living their lives in fast-forward. For those ready to reclaim their time, their thoughts, and their right to exist at a human pace in an inhuman world.

Are you ready to slow down to speed up what actually matters?

Inspirational nudges I compiled for you

Here is a curated list of articles/links on the topic of slowing down and creating your life.

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Bird watching - Popular recreational activity

Now, here is a way to slow down. Bird watching. It has overtaken fishing as the number one hobby in the UK. Who would have thought.

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Reading Rhyth

Not a book club. A reading party. Read with friends in cozy venues to curated music.

Instagram: @reading_rhythms

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Book “The Ageless Brain - How to Sharpen and Protect Your Mind for a Lifetime”

(March 2025) From the bestselling author of The End of Alzheimer’s, Dr. Dale Bredesen. In recent decades, advances in medicine have changed the way we think about our health. In The Ageless Brain, Dr. Bredesen shares cutting-edge science on neurodegeneration, including how misunderstandings of the disease have hindered our efforts to treat it, as well as a preventative program that readers of all ages can put into practice to optimize their cognitive health now and sustain it for years to come.

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