Do you have alert fatigue?

I think I was pretty young when I was introduced to Aesop’s Fables. One of the more famous ones is the story of the boy who cried wolf. In the story, a boy cries out that there is a wolf, but it was a lie. The town’s people came out to rescue him but find that there was no wolf. They went back to their business, and he cried out that there was a wolf a second time. But again, he lied, so pe...