Your attention has a weight to it.
Give it to the wrong things, and even simple days feel exhausting.
Give it to the right things, and everything feels lighter.
Your life is shaped less by what you pay attention to, and more by what you stop paying attention to.
No one teaches you how to do that part.
You’re taught how to be curious, how to stay informed, how to work hard.
But no one teaches you how to close mental tabs.
And closing tabs is a survival skill.
Most of your stress doesn’t come from big responsibilities.
It comes from the dozens of tiny things you keep tracking out of habit.
People whose approval you’re still chasing even though you don’t respect them.
Projects you’ve outgrown but still feel guilty about abandoning.
Endless streams of news that convince you the world is on fire 24/7.
Opinions from strangers online who will forget you exist in 48 hours.
Expectations you inherited rather than chose.
These things don’t explode your life.
They slowly erode it.
They steal the mental space you need to think clearly, to create anything meaningful, to feel like a real person instead of a browser with 56 tabs draining the battery.
You feel irresponsible for ignoring things.
You feel guilty for withdrawing attention.
You feel scared that if you stop tracking everything, something important will fall apart.
Quiet makes everything clearer.
When the noise dies down, you can tell which things were real and which were just echoes you kept chasing.
And once that background noise fades, you start noticing things you haven't truly looked at in years:
What actually excites you.
Who actually energizes you.
What you’ve been avoiding doing.
What you’ve been avoiding admitting.
What you actually want your life to look like.
People try to “find clarity” by journaling or planning or reading self-help books.
And those aren’t useless, but clarity mostly arrives through deletion.
You learn who you are by watching what remains when you stop giving your attention to everything else.
Selective ignorance is important because it lets you decide what truly deserves space in your head.
Because your attention is not just a resource, it’s a vote.
Every time you pay attention to something, you reinforce its importance in your life.
So the real question becomes:
You don’t need a complete system or a color-coded calendar to start this.
All you need is one moment of honesty with yourself:
What have I been paying attention to that no longer deserves me?
Most people never ask that.
And that’s why most people feel overwhelmed.
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See you on the next stair,
Alastair