As a society, we’re so focused on instantaneous gratification that our short-term solutions often become long-term problems.

When we fill up our lives and leave ourselves no room to reflect, those distractions become our values by default.

So often, organizations get comfortable providing their core offerings and don't consider what other products, services or partnerships could help them live their WHY.

It is especially easy in our time to forget others, largely because of the conditions in modern society.

Once you've got — actually got — an idea that is whirring around so fast that no other light or contrary evidence can come in, I think it's very dangerous.

We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended.

Without self-reflection, we ride the momentum of whatever we’re already doing and whatever we stumble across. This means we work on the wrong things by default, because our core values shift over time and they’re often not what they used to be.

Those swift to think are not always secure.

It can be dangerous, too, getting so involved in the minutiae of a setting.

The most important things of your life can change so suddenly, so unrecoverably, that you can forget even the most important of them and their connections, you are so taken up by the chanciness of all's that happened and by all that could and will happen next.

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

Emotions have evolved so that we can make decisions quickly and without thinking in situations where there is no time for reasoning.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.