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…until attitudes [about working women], however unconscious, catch up with the way we really live our lives, the overwhelm will swirl on.

There is no question that the overwhelm and information overload are fracturing time for both mean and women and splintering it into whirling bits of time confetti.

When you are overwhelmed, when you can neither predict nor control the forces shaping your time, when you don’t even have time to think about why you’re overwhelmed, much less what to do about it, you’re powerless.

The overwhelm is an issue for everyone, really, living in a country whose very mission is to guarantee the rights of its citizens to pursue happiness.

…people the world over describe their lives as an overwhelming, crazed, and often punishing grind. They say they yearn for nothing more than time for joy. Time to play.

A final lesson in learning how to climb out of that ceaseless frenzy of the overwhelm… [is] learning how to master the ceaseless clutter of your own contaminated mind.

…the overwhelm never goes away. But you can change how you think about it: pausing and noticing it without judgment, not reacting to it.

…as the brain grows, the better you are able to see the swirl of the overwhelm without getting swept away by it.

Getting out of the overwhelm… means waking up. Waking up to life. Waking up to the fact that it’s fleeting.

However fast-changing the digital ecosystem, the essence of leadership doesn’t change one jot, through the levels of noise, obfuscation, hype and novelty sometimes overwhelm us.