Why does life suddenly feel like one long exercise in friction?

Usually, it is because we are navigating today's terrain with yesterday's map.

If the Google Maps app on your phone hasn't updated since 2018, you are eventually going to drive into a wall. We understand this instantly with technology, but we completely miss it in our own psychology.

We run our careers and our relationships on background rules we wrote decades ago - rules like "work until you drop to be safe" or "hide your flaws to be loved."

In this clip from Thursday's Navigation Lab, we look at the hypnotic nature of these outdated operating systems.

Are you navigating today with a map from 1999?