animals forage for food. This is another one of those evolutionary quirks that served us well in the past: seeking information was helpful when information was limited, just as our drive for food helped us when calories were scarce. But now, the abundance of cheap, sugar-filled food has led to an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes, and our easy access to endless, often low-quality information is overwhelming our brains. Just as too much sunlight makes it impossible to see, too much information makes it impossible for us to think. There’s a reason, after all, that many of our most creative
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