I know that my failure to complete certain tasks isn’t down to how boring they are because it’s not always been like this for me. Going back a decade or so to my teenage years, my friends would pass me their Blackberry phones to organise and streamline apps and chats. Even at university, my weekly shop was always done and I regularly felt the accomplishment that comes with a full petrol tank. I can’t quite work out when that spark for completing jobs died out.

Millennials, those aged 22-37, are often classed as the lazy generation. The milestone of ‘adulthood’ is ever aging: whereas previously people were assumed to be fully-formed adults at 18, a 2018 study suggested we weren’t getting there until we 24, while some scientists suggest it’s more like 30. One assumption is that, because our phones do everything for us, we don’t need to learn adult skills. We don’t go shopping, we order clothes from our phone. We don’t cook, we get Deliveroo. We don’t ponder the universe, we Google it. In a world where ‘there’s an app for that’ we’ve managed to outsource almost everything.

Why can’t I keep on top of my life admin? Welcome to the very millennial problem of errand paralysis