Imagine you walked into your home tonight and found a stranger standing in your living room, rummaging through your drawers and taking your most personal belongings. You would be outraged. You would call for help. You would defend your space with everything you had, because your home is the one place where you are supposed to be safe. Yet, we allow this to happen every single day to our most private and valuable territory: our attention.
In the world we inhabit today, your attention is the primary currency. There are thousands of the world’s smartest people sitting in glass towers, paid millions of dollars to figure out how to steal just five more seconds of your focus. They don’t want your money; they want your presence. They want to keep you in a state of "infinite scroll" so you never have the chance to look up and realize that your life is passing you by while you watch it through a glass screen. We are living through a silent robbery, a gradual emptying of our internal lives, and it is time we started defending the gates of our own minds.
