Most of life is spent in the gap between intellectually understanding a concept and being able to shape our lived experience around it. >**This distance between knowing and doing is one of the deepest sources of quiet misery.** Take, for example, the habit of distracted eating in front of a screen. It took the universe unimaginable acrobatics to bring a plate of fresh food before you. Your body, too, is a miracle—an inheritance shaped by countless generations, finely tuned to sense and savour. In every moment of tasting, thousands of taste buds come alive, each holding dozens of receptor cells decoding signals through a network of nerves to your brain, where this complex symphony is orchestrated into the simple joy of flavor. Yet instead of being present in awe, we turn away, feeding our minds an endless stream of looping videos.