Today's thought comes from "LIT (Life Ignition Tools): Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action," by Jeff Karp. Here's a description of the book -- and its author -- from amazon.com: "In an age of convenience and information overload, it’s easy to go through the motions, pressured, distracted, and seeking instant gratification rather than harnessing our potential for meaningful and impactful lives. In LIT, Jeff Karp, Ph.D., professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and biotech innovator, helps us look to nature as a vital source of
humankind’s best wisdom, most inspired action, and greatest good."
It's an enlightening exercise to think about how different life is today -- in our artificially created environments -- compared to how our ancestors lived (for hundreds of thousands of years).
Now we are sitting all day, in artificial indoor rooms, with artificial light, staring at the artificial light of our screens, and in many cases being quite isolated from deep connections with family and community. No wonder so many people struggle so much with physical and mental health!
