Talmidchochom, I still would like to respectfully disagree. I can’t ask my Rosh Yeshiva what to do because I never had one and I am not joining this discussion from personal experience because I do not go and never have gone to minyan daily, and have not even gone on shabbos for years, exception being parshas zachor and shofar on R”H.
But, I can say this about being judgemental on how other people daven:
We look at our gedolim, see that they davened in the best way for them to have kavana, and do the same- daven the best way to have kavana. For some, that is a slow-paced davening, maybe with lots of meaningful singing. For some, it is a quickly moving davening with no down-time for the mind to wander. I have one kid who is ADD who has a really hard time davening. I encourage him to just daven the minimum- brochos and shema, which he can handle, rather than attempt to daven the whole davening (for his age) and space out or not daven at all. Of course, he does not yet have a chiyuv, but there are probably adults out there with ADD as well who have a hard time sitting and focusing through a long davening. Perhaps for these people, a quick davening is the most they can handle and the best for their kavana?
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