“Disrupting the vicious cycle between work addiction and loneliness has also had an unexpected and positive impact on his professional performance. “The paradox is that I became more productive and more effective, the more I slowed down and was aware and connected.” In a modern version of Aesop’s fable of the tortoise and the hare, Bryan was proving that slow and steady really does win the race. But the final benefit for Bryan was completely personal. “I was happier and more fulfilled,” he says. “I’m busy, but I’m having fun. I don’t feel like work is looming over me and driving me. I’m driving”