You’re Not Distracted. You’re Just Addicted to Bullshit.

Look, man.

You don’t have a focus problem.

You don’t need Adderall for breakfast.
You’re not broken.
Your mind isn’t failing you.

You’re living in a world that is always trying to rent space inside your head and most people hand over the keys without realizing it.

Once you see that, everything falls into place.

You’re not distracted.
You’re unaligned.

Your Attention Pays Other People’s Bills

Your phone isn’t entertainment.
It’s an extraction tool.

Every app is built to take a little more of your attention because that attention is how corporations make their money. They sell your data to advertisers, track your behaviour to predict your next purchase, and feed you tailored content to keep you staring long enough for their predictions to pay out.

The more you look, the more they profit.
The less you notice, the cleaner the extraction.

That is the entire game:

• Your attention is the product.
• Your time is the transaction.

Divided attention costs more than time.
It costs depth.

Every distraction leaves mental residue that follows you into the next thought. The mind has limited bandwidth, and the algorithms know exactly how to drain it. Each little hit of cheap stimulation costs you clarity you aren’t getting back.

Mindless consumption makes deep thinking harder. People trade depth for dopamine without ever seeing the cost.

If others can turn your focus into their fortune, it becomes your duty to defend it.

Attention Shapes Reality

Where you look is where you live.

Focus on bullshit and life becomes bullshit.
Focus on chaos and everything feels chaotic.
Focus on what matters and life begins to shift toward it.

Attention is architectural. You build your inner and outer world with it.

If you cannot sit with your own mind, you cannot build anything worthwhile.

Point your attention deliberately and reality follows.

Your Mind Isn’t Overwhelmed. It’s Overfed With Slop.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between a real threat, a headline, a text argument, or a video about war. To your biology, stress is stress.

You weren’t designed to wake up to an ISIS beheading video and Britney Spears dancing with knives on Instagram before you have even made coffee.

Most modern stress is artificial, but your body reacts as if everything is life or death.

This is why you feel exhausted after doing nothing. Your mind has been responding to a world you were never meant to process at that speed.

The fix is simple:

• Filter the noise.
• Cut the mental slop.
• Guard your attention like capital.
• Only let in what earns its place.

A quiet mind is not a luxury.

It is the foundation on which clairvoyance is built.

The Late Night and Early Morning Hours Are Where You Actually Meet Yourself

Most people never slow down long enough to hear themselves think.

The world is loud.
Their habits are automatic.
Their goals come from everywhere except their own clarity.

Late at night or early in the morning, when everything goes quiet, the real intel finally comes in.

No screens. Just a pen and journal.

Ask yourself directly:

• What do I want?
• Why do I want it?
• Are these goals mine or someone else’s?
• How do I truly enjoy spending my time?

You do not need hours. You need intention. Thirty quiet minutes reveal more truth than a year of distraction.

Clarity rises when every other voice falls silent before your own.

Most People Aren’t Even Living in the Same Reality Anymore

Two people can watch the same event and walk away believing completely different things.

The event is the same.
The interpretation is not.

Modern media doesn’t just show you reality. It narrates it.

Corporations push what sells.
Politicians push what keeps them in power.
Foreign adversaries amplify division because a polarized society is easier to demoralize.

The outcome is predictable:

Millions of people live in parallel realities, arguing over different versions of the same world.

Not because they cannot think, but because someone else is doing the thinking for them. Someone profits from the confusion.

If you don't guard your attention, you don't just lose focus. You hand over authorship of your life.

Most people never realize someone else is more than willing to write it for them.

Stay sharp,
Mitch