There's no time.

Our mind is not designed to process time. When it sees trouble, it wants to find a solution instantly. After all, if we take too much time, the lion will eat us.

So, we don't give ourselves breathing space.

Everything feels urgent, and so everything becomes urgent.

If we observe, though, it becomes clear that every stimulus gives us time to respond. And a better response is almost always better than a quicker response.

We can then play the other game, the one in which "there's all the time in the world."

HT to Rosamund Stone Zander for teaching the other game in her book Pathways to Possibility.