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Pico Iyer is an author, speaker, and travel writer, famous for authoring the biography of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, titled "The Open Road" and the TED Talk "The Art of Stillness."
Pico featured on the "On Being" podcast with Krista Tippett and spoke about the importance of stillness and slowing down, especially in a time of such fast pace and urgency.
His life exemplifies someone who is doing the exact opposite of someone who is perceived as 'chasing success', as defined in a modern sense, once upon a time holding a successful journalistic role in New York City but left it all to live in rural Japan, where he resides still to this day.
His move was driven by the realisation that in our blind ambition for progress, paradoxically, we've created a world where we, ourselves, are finding it increasingly difficult to develop as individuals.
His creative work and transcendence of the material world is credited to the stillness and quiet he finds in life, and is something which I, myself have begun to find the true abundance of life in.
Please take the time to listen to this wise and insightful human as I share some of his words which resonated deeply with me.
"We have more information but less space to make sense of it."
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"The only cure for distraction is attention."
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"We have more and more time-saving devices, but less and less time, it seems to us."
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"We are rediscovering the urgency of slowing down."
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