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How to stretch time
I constantly listen to leaders who feel they don’t have enough time. If I suggest to them that we take a walk rather than meet in their office, they oftentimes look at me like I’m crazy. Until that is, we actually go for a walking meeting.
Walking not only stretches time, it solves problems too. Read on.
Walking stretches time
Erling Kagge, in his latest book: “Walking. One step at a time” writes:
“Everything moves more slowly when I walk…It is a truth universally acknowledged that one saves time travelling only two hours from one point to another instead of spending eight hours on the same journey. While this holds up mathematically, my experience is the opposite: times passes more quickly when I increase the speed of travel. My speed and time accelerate in parallel…when you are in a car driving towards a mountain…life is curtailed; it gets shorter. You don’t notice the wind, the smells, nor the shifting light..everything becomes one big blur…if you were to walk along the same route, however..the day becomes something else entirely…time stretches out, independent of minutes and hours. And this is precisely the secret held by all of those who go by foot: life is…
