It's Time to Slow Down Our Busy Lives

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 3, 2014

This segment originally aired live on December 3, 2014. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on December 31, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here.

Omid Safi, professor, director of Duke University's Islamic Studies Center, columnist for the On Being website and the writer of Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters (HarperOne, 2010), is so busy, his kids are so busy, and he's not happy about it. He pleads for us to carve time in our busy lives to relax, to connect to other people and to live, as he says, an "examined life." Also, Maria Konnikova, contributor to The New Yorker, journalist, psychologist and author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (Viking, 2013), talks about the time crunch of poverty.

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