Our automatic reaction to the demands of the toxic pace of our life is either to try to cram more into every moment of our day or to try to cut back on what we feel we have to do. Cramming is trying not only to do more and more in less and less time, but trying to think more and more things at the same time, and faster and faster. . . . Unfortunately, we have reached that point, . . . the critical mass of too much.
— Paul Pearsall, Toxic Success