A short YouTube talk by James Laughlin addressing modern life’s fast pace and common resistance—especially among business leaders and entrepreneurs—to meditation and intentionally slowing down. The speaker frames slowing down as a reset to ‘factory settings’ and suggests it feels counterintuitive despite being fundamentally natural and restorative.
We tend to move fast as business leaders, entrepreneurs, you know, and that also tends to be the kind of general mode for society to follow. Everything's fast. We tend to take so much on now as individuals, you know, we're balancing and spinning so many plates. And so it's not uncommon for us to feel a resistance to something like meditation, to even the idea of slowing down, because it kind of, in a strange way, feels counterintuitive, even though it's the most intuitive thing that, you know, that we could possibly do, because we're connecting back to, you know, that date where we're almost resetting ourselves to the factory settings.
