amusing words about this article from ideafestival:

Having been implicated in a host of chronic conditions, stress is the repeated sweep of the horizon, the bug in our code, the shallow breath of our pell-mell lives.

Mindful? Most days, I’d settle for remembering where I left my keys. 

Describing this thoroughly modern state of affairs as “the luxury of slowly falling apart,” 2006 IdeaFestival presenter Robert Sapolsky […] knows something about what has often been viewed as an “unpleasant mental state with few long-term consequences.”