Live Long with Peter Bowes
Live Long with Peter Bowes
Healthspan Media
Are We Rushing Life? | Alex Snider
50 minutes Posted Sep 27, 2026 at 3:00 pm.
Are we threatened by time?
Introduction
If living long also means living well?
Healthy years added to our lives
Alex Snider wants us to slow down
15 years is a stressful job
Questioning our relationship with the clock
Book: Sometimes You Should Be Late
Meet Alex
The cycling accident that changed Alex’s life
Stress, pressure and the way we respond
Life inside government and diplomacy
Regrets about always being busy
Why punctuality became the starting point
The Good Samaritan experiment
Peter’s “white space” approach
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(Cont.) Peter’s “white space” approach
When deadlines really do matter
Are we wasting too much time?
42:20 What actually brings us joy?
Alex's Book launch
Giving a talk
Alex's best friend
How Alex thinks about the future
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Alex Snider thinks our constant rushing, and our obsession with being on time, may be costing us more than we realize. For Live Long, this goes to the heart of a bigger question: if longevity is about living well, not simply living longer, are we actually giving enough attention to the life happening now? Alex, author of Sometimes You Should Be Late, spent more than 15 years in high-pressure government roles before a cycling accident forced him to rethink urgency, productivity and what it ...