The trouble with living in times of constant connectivity, online backslapping and the immediate proliferation of fresh ideas into played-out old hat, is that it’s far too easy to overthink things. There’s a lot to be said for the timeworn, age-old behaviour of simply saying ‘sod it’. Just doing things for the sake of it. History is studded with discoveries, inventions and, yes, warnings from people whose you-only-live-once attitude has led them into action simply to see what would happen. Have you ever considered what possessed the first person ever to try and milk a cow? What the hell were they up to? And Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm, Marie Curie messed about with radium… if you don’t try new things, how will you ever know
