At work, after frantically finishing one project, you are stunned to realize you have only two days left to work on another. Only recently that deadline was weeks away. What you always “knew” is now a rude surprise. Play this out over time and it leads to what we call juggling: the constant move from one pressing task to the next. Juggling is a logical consequence of tunneling. When we tunnel, we “solve” problems locally and temporarily.
