How to Protect Your Mind From Constant Distraction

Use a simple filter to decide what deserves your attention and what you should ignore.

We are living through the greatest crisis of attention in human history.

Every morning, you wake up to a world designed to hijack your consciousness.

Millions of dollars in processing power and thousands of the world’s smartest engineers are currently working on one single goal: To keep you looking at things that don’t matter.

There are so many lies, false claims, and bad pieces of advice we have no clue what to trust anymore.

And since we spend so much time online, all these attacks on our minds are harming our ability to think clearly.

We have handed over the keys to our brains to people who do not have our best interests at heart.

The Stoic philosopher Epictetus identified this problem nearly two thousand years ago. He said:

“If someone handed your body over to some passerby, you’d be annoyed. Aren’t you ashamed that you hand over your mind to any person you happen to meet, so that it may be disturbed and troubled?”

If you lose the ability to think, you lose the ability to live on your own terms.