“Life,” the American journalist and author Elbert Hubbard once quipped, “is just one damned thing after another.” Like many of the best one-liners, it’s funny until you realise how unsettlingly true it is.
Imagine if you recorded all your experiences over a year. I don’t mean that you recap the year the way some people do in their Christmas cards; you simply list every single thing you do, and everything that happens to you, for twelve months. You now have a full inventory of your...
