Because we live in a free-floating state of anxiety, we don’t even need a problem to set off a stream of disaster scenarios. Living in the future creates the illusion that we are managing our life and steels us against personal failure.

Always-on technologies keep us constantly hooked in. As a consequence, our lives have now become flat-line efforts of partial engagement; we’re never fully focused, but never truly relaxing either. Over time, we pay the price in the form of mediocre performance and a lingering sense of unhappiness.