Stefania Lucchetti featured on Thrive Global: Why Slowing Down Keeps Your Mind Young
Think about the last time you reached the end of a day and couldn’t say how you got there. The emails were answered, the errands were done, and your phone logged hours of scrolling, yet the day itself left almost no trace. That blur has become so common that most of us treat it as normal. It may also be one of the quiet reasons so many people feel older, more tired, and more scattered than they expect to. The problem isn’t simply that we’re busy. We take in more than ever and process less of it.
Few people are better placed to explain why than Stefania Lucchetti. She is an award-winning Italian poet and essayist and one of the most widely read contemporary Italian poets in the world, writing in both Italian and English. She is also a philosopher of what she calls technological humanism, the question of how we stay fully human as technology grows faster and more capable. Her perspective is unusual because she has lived on both sides of the divide. Lucchetti has worked as a technology lawyer for almost thirty years, was among the first technology lawyers in Europe, and holds a second master’s degree in clinical psychology. When she argues that curiosity and deep thinking are the closest thing we have to staying young, she isn’t speaking as someone who rejected the modern world. She is speaking as someone who helped build it.
