A thing I didn’t appreciate as a kid, but understand better now, is why so much of the world is suboptimal – it’s not just because people don’t know better, but largely because people are trapped. Many (most?) people are too tired and overwhelmed to bring their A game to anything.

A lot of things make a lot more sense when you consider that people have toxic relationships, are sleep deprived, eating junk, sitting for too long, are saddled with debt, and are generally being tortured by existence via thousands of small cuts

Many people are too burdened by past obligations to see clearly with fresh eyes what’s happening in front of them, what’s around them, where things are headed. Have you ever been too tired to get ready for bed?

(pic: Improve our system? No thanks we are too busy)

• Too tired to exercise
• Too anxious to sleep
• Too stressed to relax
• Too broke to quit
• Too overwhelmed to focus
• Too many things on the schedule
• Too many overdue tasks
• Too many unmet obligations
• Too many unanswered emails
• Too much going on