Carl Honoré

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Today, we are joined by Carl Honore, the journalist and public thinker behind the global slow movement and the rare author who has spent more than two decades on a single topic that has only grown more urgent, ironically.

His books, In Praise of Slowness, which I have read and has been deeply meaningful to me, and The Slow Fix, have been translated in more than 30 languages.

His TED Talks have been watched by millions.

There's a bit of a kind of rumble within education, but not really.

Um, but I think what's interesting is maybe a time to sort of r- revisit that post pandemic and think, well, actually, um, is there something here about reevaluating, um, our relationship with speed? So there was a, a book that was written, uh, 2004 it came out in q- in terms of In Praise of Slow, and it was a, by a journalist called Carl Honoré.

And one of his catalysts for writing the book, um, was about hi- the relationship with his two-year-old son.

And, um, his two-year-old son really liked long bedtime stories.