The Tyranny of Drive

By Frank J. Rich

Most would offer that little of value derives from doing nothing. In fact, we have learned by experience—our own and others—that hard work produces results. Few new ventures produce the expected market entrenchment before the requisite two years. Statistics have born this out, some studies astonishing 10 years to achieve. Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers, is rife with examples.

It would seem that our penchant for hard work has delivered the productivity Americans trade on; the drive to innovate and make something from very little. Drive, that natural tendency in the human condition and its toiling twin, hard work, combine to position America as the land of opportunity by its very nature. And, by this tapping impudence that makes present moments arduous and most people impatient with the next … and others. What price do we pay for such vainglorious results?

We are in the Information Age, as many call it. We have opted in for so much of it that it’s chocking us, reducing us to info and gaining from the very same information. Life and work have reached such light speed that to keep up requires the cloning of oneself so popularized by Dolly and her brethren. But short of this, what’s a body to do? cation of enjoying our labors’ fruit, however, has become more with the world’s pace that we become distracted, disoriented, and volumes written in support of critical legislation; witness how few read the stimulus plan before voting on it. It is much the same for the proposed national health plan.

The Signs

The signs are all around us. Max Kalehoff, editor of Online Spin, midst—remote control devices. There seems to be one for every unique gadget in the room, and most have unique features not found in the others. This makes it necessary to keep them around.

We relate to Max’s experience; there are no doubt numerous, if not a dozen, remotes strewn around the TV room of our homes. This, because it is never just one remote that is needed, as Max the Internet radio receiver and the multimedia receiver. Conversely, media receiver, the plasma screen and a video source device, which might include the Roku, DVD player, or PC. Few remotes are intuitive, so every usage and combination is akin to solving a new puzzle.”

Another encroachment is the incessant emailing that has become commonplace in our information overloaded world. We have become so obsessed with the inveigling communications at our such compelling need. We “need” to communicate, and near all the time, or so it would seem. We text, email, search, blog, network, and now tweet, largely to the exclusion of most else. We write more than ever, but not letters or reports that form logically in the mind and on paper. Yet our obsession with new media connections is so compelling that we are driven eagerly to the lure of our various communications devices. But is it good?

John Freeman, editor and author of the published book, The control of our lives, encouraging so much unnecessary palaver that it threatens to make more idiot of us than savant. He writes that constantly being ON causes emotional and physical burnout, workplace meltdowns, and unhappiness.” How many of our most joyful memories, he adds, have been created in front of a screen? How does something so “vital” to our existence, its quickening anxieties the

Mr. Freeman contends that our drive to communicate changes the experience with words, their meaning, and the value of speed in our lives and business practice. We squeeze symbols from real words and the feelings that endow them, clipping along uneasily in an effort to keep up with all that is going on as though the constant

We go to war hastily, he adds, go to meetings unprepared, and build relationships on the slimmest of foundations, spending what little attention we have till little is left when we really need it. How phone, even in the middle of a meeting or engaging conversation? A quick indulgence, a text message in reply, and hardly a blush over the interruption is a common scenario. When committed to little more than our urge to merge over the airwaves, we forego the friendly gatherings at the local watering hole, the convalescing serenity of the library, and the physical and emotional investment in community events, advancing the asceticism of a constant din

Ultimately Trading The Complicated Reality Of Friendship For Its

We are driven by many things; a slower existence less prominent among them. Perhaps, there is something to the phrase: “the hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” Live slow, and prosper!

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