I’m reading The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris and something he says really resonates. He says that: “every second of your lived experience represents new connections among the roughly eighty-six billion neurons packed inside your brain.” But he also says that the “three pound lump of gray jelly” that is our brain hasn’t changed much in 40,000 years. I think what he’s getting at is that our brains haven’t changed very much, but that our minds constantly do. And here lies the problem – our software is battling our hardware.

Think of it this way. Your brain is a 1982 Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer with a 16 KB memory, but your mind is constantly trying to install the latest software, Microsoft Word 2016, for instance, onto the device.