Overcoming Hurry Sickness: The Virus of Anxiety

I’ve written and said plenty about the problem of hurry in our lives and in our world. There is a condition called hurry sickness, which is the feeling of always being rushed as though you were lagging behind in some race. This raises our stress levels. A sense that we don’t have enough time for everything we have to do is a sign of hurry sickness. We can end up feeling increasing frustration with anyone or anything that gets in the way of what you have to do. Multitasking is one of our strategies to somehow boost productivity, at least in the short-term. But the long-term costs can be pretty high for our present hurry.

In this episode and a couple of future ones this season, I’m going to talk about core drivers of hurry that I’ve been addressing in my own life since I wrote An Unhurried Life. Today, in the spirit of my new book A Non-Anxious Life, I’ll unpack how anxiety drives hurry in our lives.

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[Ponk_]

I find it frustrating that everyone around me is constantly in a rush, they are so unaware of their surroundings, and I constantly get glanced at for them thinking that I’m constantly in their way, just because they can’t seem to understand that others have as much right to be here, as they do, and I’m very self aware of how much space I’m taking up, but no matter how much space I seem to give other, or how much I try not to be in their way, someone always finds a way to try and take up the space where I’m standing, even though there’s at least 2 meters next to them, that they could have used, instead of walking where I’m standing. It’s insane that the world has become this way.

[barbaradimmick]

Thank you for this timely podcast!! Need this info more than ever today, remembering we truly can only do one thing at a time😊

[jen]

If I have to live like this for the rest of my life then I would rather tap out now. I'm tired

[elizabethsydnor]

How to get life stuff done, alone, with no one to help out?