Ponderous

I’ve been doing work recently and felt that the time allocated to me has been too short. It felt like there was not enough time to read all the background material and produce a result from it. But since the work was required soon, I changed my mindset and just set on producing a document, and voila, I did finish on time. To add to that, I didn’t think I could have done better if I had more time.

Recently while reading a famous book, the Wheel of Time, I felt that the book was a bit slow at the start. This is boring, I could have written better, I thought. But I haven’t, and the fact remains that the writer did wrote a book, then more books, then a whole series, which later become movies that it was based upon. It all started with some words, and the first words need not be perfect.

The lesson I get from this two occasions is I think I am a bit too slow and ponderous in doing things. Sometimes, or maybe most of the times, I just need to do things and stop overthinking. And I am going to remedy my sluggishness by doing exactly that, starting now. Or to be exact, 5 minutes ago. I have set to finish writing this post within 5 minutes, and it seems I just managed to complete it within the allocated time.

5 minutes is up.

Thank you for reading.