Why it’s okay to slow down

Here at Flow Magazine, we have made it our goal to help the world slow down a bit. Not a modest undertaking, we know, but let’s start with some insights on the struggles we face in this day and age, and how slowing down can benefit us.

The rise of burnout is perhaps the result of a cocktail of factors: technology creating an ‘always-on’ culture, constant social media imagery depicting enviable lives, and an increasing expectation that we should be all things to all people. Basically, we are expected to be perfect.

We are bombarded with images of perfection everywhere we look. Scroll through your social media, and you’ll no doubt see carefully curated images of other people’s lives. Go to the movies or turn on the TV, and you’ll watch adverts selling a better life before watching beautiful, polished people on the screen, providing examples of how to be the perfect partner, perfect colleague, perfect parent… the list goes on.