Taku's Blog++: "Doing It at 0.75x Speed Is Actually the Fastest?!" The Art of "Slowing Down," Worked Into Everyday Life

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Doing It at 0.75x Speed Is Actually the Fastest?!

A surprising approach that overturns the conventional wisdom about efficiency

When you want to get work or studying over with quickly, do you find yourself racing through at double speed, or multitasking to keep things moving briskly?

That approach looks efficient at first glance, but there are cases where it's actually the long way around. This time, let's unpack the paradoxical reason why deliberately working at “0.75x speed” produces the fastest results, along with a concrete way to approach it.

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And that includes the actual work!

Move slowly and you'll finish sooner!

Let's take typing as an example.

Aren't you retyping the same thing over and over?

Type slowly and you make no mistakes,

and it actually takes less time! (lol)

Slowing down makes the “do-overs” disappear

When you work at high speed, small mistakes and oversights inevitably creep in. You end up chasing corrections afterward, or starting over from the beginning, and your total time balloons. By being careful from the very start — deliberately working at a calm pace (that 0.75x feeling) — you prevent errors before they happen, and end up taking the shortest route, with no backtracking.

Deeper understanding and better quality

Whether you're taking information in or carrying a task out, slowing down lets your brain keep up, shifting you from surface-level understanding to “deep understanding.”

High-quality output: Because you create time to think things through, it leads to flashes of insight and more precise results.
Memory and skills that stick: Compared with rushing through, the knowledge and the movements settle firmly into your body.

The art of “slowing down,” worked into everyday life

You don't need to do everything slowly. What matters is deliberately taking plenty of time over “the opening stretch” and “the high-difficulty tasks”. By moving through the groundwork and the early design stage with 0.75x care, the speed of the second half accelerates dramatically.

The essence of efficiency isn't “moving fast” — it's “eliminating waste.” Why not bring in this reversal of thinking, deliberately slowing down, and take a fresh look at your daily productivity?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapefKsISvI

The Last Hope

Japan's turning point is “now”

1. The rapid evolution of AI and the transformation of society

Scale of use: ChatGPT and Google's Gemini each have monthly users of over one billion, and taking the major AIs together, roughly one in four people on the planet now converses with them daily — that's the era we've entered.
Impact on the labor market:
- In a UK survey of 10,000 people, roughly 30% of illustrators and roughly 60% of photographers said they had lost work because of AI.
- In the engineering world too, at Google AI now generates 75% of new programs, and at Microsoft roughly 30% of the code is AI-made.
Robots advancing into physical space: In 2026, mass-production lines for humanoid robots went live in China and elsewhere, and work without breaks has begun in auto plants, warehouses, and the like. AI interviewers are being introduced for first-round new-graduate interviews at major companies — the whole framework of society is being rewritten at high speed.

Japan's unique potential, and “the last hope”

A stock of history that cannot be replicated: Japan is home to Kongo Gumi, the temple-carpentry firm founded in 578, and to more than half of all the companies in the world that have been in business for over 200 years.
Retranslating the story and the future: Myths compiled in the 8th century, festivals in every region, traditional crafts (the revival of Imabari towels, for example) — Japan holds a whole parade of things that cannot be replicated. By retranslating the history we've accumulated into a story that fits the present age, it becomes one-of-a-kind value that can reach the world.
In closing: Precisely because the outer environment and its systems are being rapidly filled in by AI, we're taught that the turning point of the coming era lies in looking not far away but right at our feet — at the local shrine, at the old folktales handed down in our own communities, and other things close at hand.

The “real value” that remains at the far end of the AI era
Efficiency, and the devaluing of production: A future is arriving in which writing, pictures, blueprints, ideas, and even physical labor can be had endlessly and almost for free.
The migration of value (inward, and toward experience): In a world where everything is automated, value is shifting toward experiences that can't be replicated and toward consciousness turned inward, and the wellness market has grown to the 7-trillion-yen scale, while the meditation market is growing rapidly at an annual rate of over 20%.
Uncovering the true nature of “value” in human history
The power to believe in fiction: The most powerful invention humanity acquired 70,000 years ago is, as the historian Harari points out, “the power to believe in things that don't actually exist (a shared story).”
The essence of money: The manufacturing cost of a 10,000-yen note, for instance, is said to be about 20 yen, and yet the whole thing holds together precisely because we believe it to be worth 10,000 yen of labor and value. Nations, laws, and companies are the same — all held up by a grand fiction (a shared illusion) produced by human consciousness.