Your Body Isn’t Broken: The World Is Just Designed to Dysregulate You
You’re not lazy. You’re not unmotivated. And you’re definitely not bad at discipline.
You’re just living in a world your nervous system was never built for.
The average human nervous system evolved to deal with the occasional tiger, famine, or neighbour stealing your crops. Not 187 Slack notifications, 52 WhatsApp chats, and a running list of “urgent but non-essential” admin tasks that haunt you at 4 a.m.
The modern world keeps us in a state of low grade threat - overstimulated, under-rested, and convinced it’s our fault we can’t cope.
And I should know. I used to make a living inside that system.