The Spiritual Reason You Can't Focus
Soul Gum
Intro
Victoria Hutchins opens the episode and frames attention as sacred and for sale.
Your attention is sacred. It’s also for sale.
Maybe the reason you can’t get off your phone or stop wasting your Saturdays streaming a show you’ll forget the moment you finish the last episode or do what you say you will isn’t because you’re lazy. It’s not because you don’t want it badly enough. It’s not because you haven’t locked in. Maybe the reason you can’t focus is bigger than you entirely.
Today’s episode dives into the hidden reason we distract ourselves from our own lives and leaves you with 5 bite-sized ways to reclaim your brain. My fellow doomscrollers, rotters, and TikTok ban mourners: this one’s for you.
EPISODE OUTLINE:
02:18 The spiritual source of distraction
02:29 I. Nietzsche: staring into the abyss
03:43 II. Kierkegaard: sickness unto death
04:46 III. Victor Frankl: the search for meaning
08:04 IV. Kali yuga: the age of distraction
09:16 Enter: the attention economy
10:15 The Dorito theory
14:23 So what do we do about it?
14:31 5 steps to take back your focus
14:42 Break - with a surprise for you!
18:14 Step 1: the art of unitasking
23:05 Step 2: giving attention vs having it taken
25:14 Step 3: Dorito vs dinner list
26:48 Step 4: Dorito ritual
29:18 Step 5: Focus ritual
31:24 Lightning round recap
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