Why successful people don't use to-do lists

There is a horror story out there. Man is feeling overwhelmed, begins compiling a to-do list. Three bullets turn into ten — ten bullets turn into twenty. Moments later, he finds himself in hand-to-hand combat with a to-do list so long and so vast it resembles the spiraling tentacles of a giant squid. He loads himself up with enough caffeine to fuel an entire city and begins his slow tedious descent to the bottom, crossing each line off the to-do list one at a time.
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