Why can’t I figure it out?

This is the age of the highly distracted mind.

We literally encounter thousands (3,000 from the last article I read) of new advertisements that were designed to grab our attention each day.

But there is an even more fundamental difficulty in our age: the almost endless supply and consumption of unreal fantasy.

From my point of view, all information and entertainment is a type of training. It trains our minds to find and implement specific patterns or react to very specific things. We easily try to discount its influence on us. But advertisers know that it works, and that is why they spend billions of dollars and use teams of scientists on their schemes. What we see, we do. What we feel, we worry about. What is in front of us, we acknowledge. It doesn’t matter if it is on a screen, or in a book. We still live it. It still trains us. It is the script for our thoughts and our mind. When we encounter something new, it has already trained us on how to react to the situation.

As we move through the hundreds of movies that we watch, the thousands of hours of television we take in, the hundreds of books that we read, and the countless hours of music, it takes us further and further away from what is right in front of us.

Most religions take us away from this world.

Almost all entertainment hypes up our emotions and makes it difficult to focus on what is right in front of us.

The only line that I have found that clears our mind and helps me to focus on the tasks in front of me with care and purpose is buddhism. I think it may be the only source that calls for clarity and focus and to accept life as we see it.

If you find it hard to figure out the most basic and simple tasks, it’s because you’ve accepted the invitation to mentally live somewhere else.

Why not implement a program, or discipline that helps you calm down and focus on what is right in front of us.