You Will Live Like a Lobotomized Pigeon if You Don’t Reclaim Your Focus
Recovering Overthinker
Modern technology harms our attention, making us feel empty like a lobotomized pigeon. True focus and intention are needed to live a meaningful, fulfilling life. Without effort to reclaim attention, we risk losing our unique human potential.
3 May 2026
However, most people have lost the ability to stimulate and energize themselves through deep focus. Without moments of deep engagement with things that excite us, life feels hollow. Something vital is missing. We sense, in a deep way, that life was meant to be richer, more interesting.
Overstimulation from our smartphones, although unhealthy and self-destructive, is the most accessible, convenient, and therefore the most popular way to fill that inner void.
How intentional are you about reclaiming and protecting your attention so that you can harness its full power? Are you letting yourself be defeated and even humiliated by algorithms, becoming progressively less capable of controlling your inner resources? Or are you going to fight to preserve human dignity and beauty by strengthening your main line of both defense and attack – your attention?