About
The Slow Movement • Mindfulness • NLP • Meditation
Tai Chi • Chi Kung • Hypnosis
Hello and welcome to TortoiseKnowsBest.Com, an oasis of calm in our hectic world. An idyllic desert island in the stormy sea of the internet…
(and other such analogies and metaphors to do with being calm.)
Here we go at snails pace…
This blog explores the idea of the “Tortoise Mind”
In our hectic and hare-brained society we are often under pressure to think and act faster than we can cope with, to deal with massive swathes of information, to keep up with the “next big thing”. Speed has become its own reward.
We have become ingrained in the belief that more equals better and to get more done we need to go faster and faster.
But all this speed has done very little for us. Being forced to think and act faster and faster, we have become stressed, overloaded and burnt out. We rarely have the energy or the time to appreciate what we have or are doing.
We do things, just to get things done. As soon as we get something new we looking for the next thing.
We DON’T NEED to act this fast. In fact, speed is counterproductive.
Here at TortoiseKnowsBest.Com I encourage a slower, unhurried and unflustered approach to life. A more measured and mindful response to the crazy world around us.
It is a record of my continuing adventures in using psychological tools and techniques to help me slow myself down, to sedate my “hare brain” and develop my “tortoise mind”. In this record, I hope to offer you suggestions, ideas and motivation to help you embrace the slower life too.
About the Author
Hi, I am Matt Caulfield, I was a success coach, but the success I was after didn’t seem to make me happy, in fact, it made me stressed out. The “success” I was chasing wasn’t what I wanted, it was what I thought I should want. Then I discovered the Idler which shifted my perception, but it took an accident to really set me on the path I am on now…
Learn more about my journey here.
Other digit versions of me:
The Tortoise and the Hare
“One day a hare saw a tortoise walking slowly along and began to laugh and mock him. The hare challenged the tortoise to a race and the tortoise accepted. They agreed on a route and started off the race. The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he’d sit under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race.
He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise, plodding on, overtook him and finished the race. The hare woke up and realized that he had lost the race.”
