running faster often feels like working harder. “If I’m not panting,” he said, “I don’t think I’m working.”
It’s a lousy strategy: It feeds the anxiety of never enough; it gets in the way of thinking clearly; and it convinces you to mistake motion for meaning.
via www.themonsterinyourhead.com
It also leads to mistaking motion for progress ... sometimes we need to remember to hasten slowly to actually get stuff done.