Week 2: Part One, Chapter 1 — Hurry: The Great Spiritual Danger of Our Day

1.Comer defines hurry sickness as "a continuous struggle and unrelenting attempt to accomplish or achieve more things or participate in more events in less time." Does that definition describe you, even partially? Be honest — what would people who live with you say?

2.He offers a blunt list of symptoms of hurry sickness — irritability, superficiality, isolation, joylessness, and a neglect of spiritual practices. Which of these symptoms, if any, do you recognize in your own life right now?

3.Comer quotes the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin, who coined the term "hurry sickness" in the 1940s, and later the physician Meyer Friedman. Why do you think a problem identified nearly a century ago has gotten *worse* rather than better? What forces have accelerated it?