School dropouts. Career burnout. Families stretched to the breaking point. Anxiety diagnoses by age nine. Memory loss by forty-five. Depression hiding in high-functioning professionals. A quiet rise in cognitive decline.
Across generations, cognitive resilience is unraveling. And instead of treating the cause, we label it lifestyle.
International best-selling author Daniel Pink once described modern life as “stimulus-rich but context-poor.” But today, even that feels generous. We’re living in a world where attention is fractured, rest is rare, and clarity is slipping away.
Millions are experiencing the same fog: lost words, slow thoughts, a feeling that the brain just isn’t “clicking.” Sleep doesn’t help. Caffeine only delays the crash. And focus—once effortless—now takes everything.
What we casually call stress or mental fatigue is often something deeper: early-stage neurological dysfunction.