I was caught by the title of this article on the HBR blog: The Unimportance of Practically Everything. I do tend to think that most things are relatively unimportant, and that a lot of the angst we experience on a daily basis arises from under-attending to the important stuff and over-focusing on the unimportant.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/06/28/how-to-stop-wasting-time-and-get-more-useful-stuff-accomplished/
