Posted by Tim McKee – March 25, 2020
A few years ago, NAB author and thinker Bayo Akomolafe told me, “The times are urgent, so let us slow down.” I sensed right away what he meant by this apparent contradiction: that it is during acute periods of tumult that we most need spaciousness, patience, and circumspection. After all, it can be tempting in periods of rapid change to “rush in” out of fear that an extra pause or moment of hesitation will spell doom. Yet history has ample examples where this very thinking has actually led us into deeper harm.
Over the years, I drew upon Bayo’s axiom in fairly specific ways: convincing an author with an urgent message to be patient with themselves and us in keeping to longer publishing timelines in the interest of putting out the most resonant book possible; reminding my teenage son to slow down as he rushed to get everything he needed in the minutes before his bus to school arrived (otherwise he always seemed to forget his lunch); and even repeating the mantra to myself as I was tempted to rush through stop signs as I sped to a work meeting I might be late for.
Little did I know then that Bayo’s maxim would be a fitting one for the entire world in the wake of the Coronavirus.
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