What led you to look into the subject?
“I wanted to look into the subject because I am a very bad student! she confirms straight away. But it’s an idea that obsesses me, and that obsesses many people around me. Everyone wants to put their foot on the brake. The will is there, but we don’t know how to do it! So I tried to find the tools. […] How do we find a pace more suited to our needs? »
Can we really learn to slow down in eight episodes?
“We cannot learn to slow down in eight hours, but we can certainly give a lot of tools to all kinds of people,” says the woman who gives the floor here to a wide variety of experts, from neuropsychologists to politicians, in passing through a philosopher, artists, even a doctor-poet! “We really give extremely different individual tools, we even give breathing exercises! And to slow down collectively, we even talk about degrowth and the economy. If anyone listens to all eight hours and doesn’t pick up a single tool, I’ll be very surprised! »
How exactly does slowing down represent an act of resistance?
“It’s a bit conventional to say it, but we live in a society with immense pressure to perform. We don’t allow ourselves much to do nothing. And sometimes we do violence to ourselves when we allow ourselves to rest. Resistance is in the choice to slow down when possible, because for many, it is also a luxury to slow down. Collectively, slowing down is also a gesture of resistance, because in our capitalist society, that is not what is desired. Rather, it is growth that we are aiming for. »
And you, would you say that this show succeeded in really making you slow down?
” Such ! So much so that I let go of contracts this fall. I planned to continue with the same pace of life, but I realized that it wasn’t what I wanted. I decided to work less because I couldn’t justify why I was keeping the same pace. […] Does everything I do make sense? By asking myself the question, I made choices. And I cleared many days. ” To do what ? “No more volunteering, seeing my family, sleeping!” I’m not going to work 65 hours a week. I will live. […] And I dream, in the medium term, of working part-time…”
To slow down will be presented on Sundays, starting June 30, at 3 p.m. on ICI Première.