In a world addicted to acceleration, where thinking fast is praised as intelligence and urgency passes for importance, slowness is often dismissed as weakness.

But what if speed has become our most seductive illusion, and our most dangerous limitation?

This book challenges the cultural obsession with fast cognition, revealing how the pace of thought has become a hidden axis of exclusion, stress, and shallow understanding.

Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and education, it explores the lives, struggles, and quiet power of slow thinkers — those who pause before speaking, process in spirals, and arrive at truth by a longer path.

This is not a self-help manual: it is a radical reappraisal of what it means to think clearly, deeply, and humanly.

Because intelligence is not a race and slowness is not a flaw, but a form of wisdom we cannot afford to lose.

This book is part of the INSIGHTS SERIES, a collection of works dedicated to presenting and exploring bold, evidence-based ideas that challenge conventional thinking.

You can read here an Abstract of the Book.

The book is available in print format only and can be purchased on Amazon.

You can reach me here: paolo@paolocasciatopubblicazioni.it

Title of this Manual: Not So Fast.The Need and Beauty of Slow Thinking: Reflection on Deep, Deliberate Intelligence.
Author: Paolo Casciato
Language: English
Pages: 510
Year of Publication: 2025
Price: Euro 24.00
ISBN: 9798315850717