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Too Fast to Think
Chris Lewis
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In a world where we're too busy to think, Chris Lewis offers a revolutionary blueprint for reclaiming creativity. Endorsed by presidential advisers and CEOs, this bestseller reveals why "hurry sickness" kills innovation. Could disconnecting actually be your competitive advantage?

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The Creativity Crisis in Our Hyperconnected World

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In an age where we're drowning in information but starving for wisdom, our creative capacities are under unprecedented threat. We send and receive 121 emails daily, process billions of messages, and consume nearly 10 hours of media every day while being bombarded by hundreds of advertisements. This digital deluge has created a modern epidemic: we're simply moving too fast to think. The consequences are profound - journalists who once wrote 3-4 stories weekly now produce that many daily with diminished quality; millennials check email obsessively even in bed or bathrooms; and our collective attention spans have fractured into snippets rather than sustained focus. What's particularly troubling is how this information overload creates echo chambers where we filter for personally relevant news while avoiding challenging perspectives. Yet ironically, despite overwhelming negative news coverage, objective measures show remarkable global progress - poverty has been cut in half, violence has dramatically decreased, and global GDP has tripled. The disconnect between our perception and reality raises a crucial question: what else might we be missing when we never slow down enough to truly think?

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Reclaiming Your Creative Birthright

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