You’re not bad at focusing. You’ve just never had to defend your attention this hard before.

Modern life is a digital slot machine:

It’s designed to keep you reactive, distracted, addicted.

You’re not broken. You’re under siege.

You weren’t born with a weak mind. It’s just constantly being hijacked by algorithms smarter than you.

They:

So you end up “checking something real quick” 43 times a day.

That’s not distraction. That’s a full-blown attention war.

And if you want to win? You don’t optimize. You defend.

Your first move is NOT to "be more mindful." It’s to build a wall between your focus and the things stealing it.

Start here:

This isn't about discipline. It's about protection.

The less you trust your future self to resist temptation, the more you need to block it now.

Boredom is not the enemy. It’s the training ground.

If you can’t be bored for 5 minutes, you’ll never sit through deep work for an hour.

Start small:

At first, it’ll feel brutal. Good. That’s withdrawal.

Push through it, and your baseline for stimulation starts to reset.

You don’t rise to the level of your ambition. You fall to the level of your identity.

If you tell yourself:

You’ll behave like that person.

Flip it: “I’m the kind of person who protects my focus at all costs.”

Say it. Write it. Act on it. Until it stops being a mantra and becomes a mirror.