Month: October 2025

I taught myself how to breathe slower. How to slow things down. How to not answer somebody instantaneously. You can always move slower. The world will basically wait for you if you’re deciding something consequential. And you can always say, “I’d like to think about that a little bit.” So the only reason to feel panicked is if you’re panicking yourself, and that’s your fault. You don’t have to do that. You can take your time, you can weigh things. It’s very infrequently that the timing has to be instantaneous.

– Stephen Schwarzman