Talking about our ability to rush, it is important to understand that many of us are very efficient in what we do. It is only that our goals are irrational and different things, we do, contradict each other, but still, we are very efficient in specific tasks. The fact that we are confused in overall strategy, doesn't preclude us in perfecting what we do. Especially perfected are works of people who devote themselves to one thing - there are many of those. Our geniuses are often of this kind - they may be very imperfect in many faucets of life except the main one.
Einstein was great in his science and as a public figure but imperfect in many other areas of life. Galich was great in his counterculture songs which exposed deception in Soviet Union and imperfect in many other areas. Many painters were great in painting and at loss at other things. Mandelstam was a great poet and chose not to be bothered with material hassles of life.
In our work, we are often perfect things empirically and intuitively. Since abilities of our logical mind are limited, we rely much on intuition, emotions and empirical results. Say, driving to work becomes perfected with experience. We learn every movement and every variation of those, and often optimize those for performance, speed, efficiency and what we do while we drive. As I mentioned, a popular approach is to pack time with many parallel tasks. Many people are great in that. Many drive, smoke, drink coffee, listen to radio and speak on the phone at the same time. Some even answer SMS messages on the phone and look at real time traffic patterns on Google maps. Bill Gates is known to be dressing up for meetings while on the road (I am not sure whether he would be driving himself at the time). Mr. Beans (a British comedian) even demonstrated how to shave, brush teeth and make breakfast while driving (that was an irony on his side, of course). I am pretty sure that most aliens would be at loss trying to accomplish what we do. It takes our design with empirical parallel processing capacities to be able to do what we do that efficiently. Not all people multitask - one of my friends, who dislikes multitasking, says that he cannot walk and chew chewing gum at the same time (which is an exaggeration, but illustrates the point.)
Another characteristic example of multitasking is cooking - a good chef does enormous number of actions in parallel, is very creative in her work and keeps track of enormous number of details (all of which are analogous and highly uncertain by nature). Our ability to perform creatively in conditions of uncertainty and complexity may be better than of many aliens. Another example is experimental science which is similar to cooking in ways experiments are done.
Another example is motherhood. Especially rich in multitasking are daily routines of parents with many children. The responsibilities of parenting are huge - our children are very fragile. They don't remember much from past lives and often are very careless getting in situations where they can harm themselves. Parents are constantly keeping track who is doing what, who of the kids are hungry, how much they slept, how much they exercised and breathed of fresh air, who needs to go in the toilet, who likes which foods, who needs to be distracted, entertained and taught. Parents do cleaning, washing clothes, replenishing food supplies, take care of transportation and finances. Most of these activities are done in parallel.
These examples illustrate that although we are poor strategists, we are excellent workers, designed and evolved for best performance in complex situations with high degree of uncertainty and unpredictability. You will find this our quality very handy as we join you in exploratory and military projects in the Universe.