VER-XV-0070
“I separated what's actually mine to carry from the noise the feed put in my head.”
Half the dread and outrage you'd been carrying wasn't yours, it was manufactured, piped in, and mistaken for your own state of mind. You sorted it: this is my real concern, that is the feed's residue. That sorting is eyes open turned inward. You can't act well on a mind full of other people's engineered weather.
Your Practice
- List what's weighing on you, then mark each: mine, or fed to me?
- Act on the real ones. Release the manufactured ones, they were never yours to fix.
- Cut the input that's generating the most fake weather. The source matters.
- Re-run the sort weekly. The feed refills the head faster than you'd think.
The Architects
“Nobody is going to teach you to think for yourself. A large fraction of what people around you believe is mistaken. Internalize this and practice coming up with your own worldview.”
Patrick Collison, "Advice" essay, patrickcollison.com/advice, section "If you're 10-20"