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The deficiency of efficiency

It's a draft of TM speech #9 Number 9... Number 9... Number 9... Fellow ToastMasters! It took me 9 speeches to realize I only have one speech to give. I was talking about cooking, negotiations, technology, motivation, weight loss, growth mindset, but I was just beating around the bush. This is the speech I wanted to give forever.  This is the city where I need to tell my story. In a speech number 9 I am supposed to persuade my audience. Well I must be suicidal, because I'm trying to convince a bunch of new yorkers in a middle of New York to stop being efficient. But hey, all I have is 5 minutes of your time and an urge to tell a story so I'd better get to it. First, we'll go back in time to see what's wrong with efficiency. Then we'll try to find some alternatives for it, and finally, I'll show you how the decision to stop being efficient changed my life. Nimrod was leading a high profile real estate development project in ancient Babylonia. He motivat