There's no way around it - being alive now requires a lot of thought.
In this era, blocking out the rest of the world and living just to keep ourselves happy is much more difficult. There's so much more impacting our daily survival, evermore information lodging itself in our brains and socially, given how arrogant humankind can be in regard to how much some people like to be seen to know what they're talking about, many of us think we should project that we're really on top of things; or at least feel the pressure to do so.