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Generally speaking, we don't think enough. But there's a lot more to it than that. I don't mean to say that we should all sit around and think our ways through life - we'd all be pretty thoroughly miserable if there were nothing more to life than thought. Like Gilda said, there would have a lot less credit card debt if people would just stop for a moment and think before each impulse buy. But, at the same time, it's beneficial to avoid spending hours on every little question that confronts us. We're great at making fast decisions precisely because we don't think about it very much. It would be impractical to spend five minutes comparing every possible brand choice when you go grocery shopping, for example-you'd spend hours at the store. So, more important than active thinking is, I think, more intelligent conditioning, and more thoughtful reflection after the fact in order to change the result of the next thoughtless decision. I'd argue that good drivers don't work any harder at it than bad drivers - they just developed different/better habits. I don't have to think hard about drinking responsibly, because I developed safe habits. When you get good at a game such as chess or backgammon, you spend less and less time consciously thinking through moves - you just know the good ones. And so on.
Unfortunately, most of our habits are pretty strongly trained into us, and on larger scales (national, international) there's a combination of things preventing speedy progress: we have exceedingly bad habits to begin with (we resort to hatred and war far too quickly) and those habits take an exceedingly long time to change.
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