There's a dark psychological side to "urgency". When you meet people who are "terribly, terribly busy" all the time, it's about control. If 'real' people were a

There's a dark psychological side to "urgency". When you meet people who are "terribly, terribly busy" all the time, it's about control. If 'real' people were actually that busy they'd burn out. Instead, it's often acting out. "I need that yesterday darling!" Get a few of them together and you'll see the spectacle of competitive busyness. Power hierarchies are determined by who will move their schedule to accommodate the time needs of the more dominant "busy" person. Needless to say, in such narcissistic environments, the cubed root of the natural log of feck-all gets done.