These days, most people feel pressed for time. Dorie Clark, Duke University’s professor, presented in her TEDx important reasons why many people are so busy and what choices they can make in their life to break out of this cycle of overwhelm.

She started by sharing a recent study done by the Management Research Group of 10,000 senior leaders, where they asked them what the key to their organization’s success is. In the results, 97% said “long-term, strategic thinking.” And yet, in a separate study, 96% of leaders surveyed said they don’t have time for strategic thinking.

She invited us to reflect on why 96% of people are not doing the one thing that they say is most critical to their success.

For many people, it is a reality to get trapped in the pattern of the busyness of overwork. Some people have a life that's not really in their full control. Some people are living and dealing with so many "important" things that they don't have the time to reflect on them, so they only react.

This is a great TEDx that raised fundamental questions.