Notes on a Nervous Planet

“Modern life often sells the problem and the distraction as the cure.”

Haig is sharpest when he connects anxiety to systems of attention, speed, and comparison.

“You are allowed to be informed without being constantly invaded.”

The book gives permission to create a healthier membrane between the world and the nervous system.

“Comparison turns a human life into a losing interface.”

A nervous planet trains people to evaluate themselves through impossible feeds.

“Slowness is not laziness; it is a mental health technology.”

Walking, reading, resting, and being unreachable become acts of repair.

“The antidote is ordinary presence.”

Haig keeps returning to simple anchors: body, breath, nature, sleep, and real conversation.