Here’s a big and controversial thought – what if ADHD and anxiety are not individual problems? What if society has got an attention disorder? What if we have accidentally created a world that stresses you out and messes with your head?
When historians look back at this era, I think they will recognise that we lived through what they might call the Great Acceleration – an era of warp speed.
And it’s not just technology – everything has sped up. A 2007 University of Hertfordshire study found that we are walking 10% faster than we did a couple of decades ago, and we even seem to be talking faster nowadays.
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