Anticipation is killing us. Even for the smallest things, it doesn't seem like we can handle waiting more than a few minutes. 

 

Technology has sped things up, but it has also ruined our ability to think about other things and slow our minds. What qualities do we need in order to make things a little more enjoyable? And what lessons does the New York Public Library hold for us? 

 

The answers are ahead in The Full Monty. 

 

Links:

• Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report
• A Minute Feels like 60 Billion Nanoseconds
• Impatient, distracted consumers upend the media landscape
• The Seven Virtues
• The Library Lions

Credits

Theme song: Heroes United by ScoreStudio is on a royalty-free license from Pond5.com.

 

There's Probably No Time by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/uvp/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

 

Image credit: New York Public Library Lion (Wikimedia Commons) 

 

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