Over millions of years, we evolved for a life of hunting and gathering.
For hunter-gatherers, work filled 20-30 hours a week, was physically stimulating and directly linked to survival. This is the sort of work humans were built for.
In the last 12 000 years (a mere heartbeat in physical evolutionary time periods) something entirely different has been transforming our lives: societal evolution. The world of work is now wholly unrecognisable from our hunter-gatherer roots. Today, we put on ties, sit in offices and stare at screens. Work is now about abstract concepts like marketing, tourism and social media.
Work is no longer about survival.
I've been swatting up on history books and contacting world-leading professors to understand how sitting in an office resonates with our evolutionary instincts.