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Boredom. What's the cause of it? Is our life not interesting enough anymore? Aren't there enough things to do? Are we just at a stage in our lives where nothing feels meaningful? No—it's that our threshold for what's exciting has increased. Back in university when I was studying psychology, we were taught the definition of a drug as any substance that, when taken into the body, changes how the body or mind works. Strictly speaking, this includes things like caffeine and sugar—substances we consume daily. When we consume these in excess, they give us a dopamine spike. They act like stimulants. They directly tell the brain: MORE . These natural instincts helped in ancient times when substances like these were scarce. They drove humans to seek them out—to a certain extent, the same goes for fats. But these days, we have them in such abundance that we have to consciously reduce our consumption. We've altered the world we live in so much that evolution hasn't kept up...