Urgency Culture Is Impeding Our Ability to Live Well

Our lives are increasingly getting faster and faster. A text message arrives; we feel compelled to respond immediately. An email appears, and we interrupt whatever we were doing to acknowledge it. We don't even notice that the person we were talking to kept on speaking. We look at our phones and forget whatever else we were doing or where we were going. Like hamsters in a lab hitting a bar, we keep moving faster and faster to get our dopamine hit, mistaking activity for progress and urgency for importance.

Notifications buzz, calendars fill, deadlines approach. We move from task to task without looking at the bigger picture. Forget the trees, we don't see the forest through all the paper-pushing. If something is asking for our attention right now, we believe it must deserve it.

But urgency and importance are not the same thing.

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