Your Mind is Being Hijacked

Most people think meditation is a feel-good, well-being practice. It's not.

Meditation isn't a self-care routine like acupuncture or a massage.

To understand what meditation truly is and why you desperately need it, you need to understand the battlefield where you currently find yourself.

Recent findings suggest human beings switch focus on screens about every 47 seconds on average—a decline from around 2.5 minutes in 2004. Let that thought detonate in your mind for a moment.

Unprecedented levels of information are bombarding us.

Yes, we have tremendous leverage at our disposal—knowledge and technological tools that previous generations could never imagine.

But we also face equally tremendous levels of distraction designed to pull you away from your purpose.

Mental obesity is more prevalent than ever.

Unrestrained habits of content consumption, fueled by algorithmic feeds and endless scrolling, can easily hijack our cognitive capacity.

We're endlessly exposed to information and stimulation with no meaning or purpose behind it.

But there's a way to reclaim your mental sovereignty...

The Meaning Crisis and Cognitive Overload

The Combinatorial Explosion Problem

At every moment, we are exposed to a combinatorially explosive amount of information.

Our problems exist within a vast combinatorial landscape of possibility—this is why entrepreneurship is so hard.

You are facing infinite distraction, coupled with infinite options and possibilities, leading to cognitive overwhelm.

Even in highly constrained environments like a chessboard (with 30^60 possible combinations—more than atoms in the universe), algorithmic thinking fails.

We rely on heuristics for problem-solving, but here's the catch:

There's No Free Lunch

Every single heuristic for solving problems is susceptible to the "no free lunch theorem."

The same cognitive abilities you possess put you at risk of self-deception and error.

Your problem-solving strengths become your weaknesses.

The graph illustrates the no-free-lunch theorem. Your ability to solve problems (y-axis) with your average problem-solving ability, drawn as the horizontal line. The unshaded normal distribution represents your problem-solving ability. The no free lunch theorem states that the heuristics you use to solve problems are susceptible to error with an area equal to your ability to solve problems (lower shaded plot). That means that the same cognitive abilities you possess put you at risk of self-deception and error.

Wisdom isn't a nice-to-have or a "benefit. It's vital to overcome the self-deception inherent in our cognition.

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The Meaning Problem

Meaning is fundamentally a sense of being connected to something larger than oneself.

The worse your quality of attention becomes, the more fragmented it becomes.

The more fragmented your attention, the more disconnected you feel from others and from yourself.

Worse yet, the more prone you'll be to error and self-deception, and the less meaning you'll be able to access in life.

What will happen to us without meditation? Our patterns drive us into outer conflict and inner sorrow. We become mentally lethargic and slothful consumers, losing our ability to create meaning and find purpose.

Meditation as Mental Fasting

Your only ability to stand up to this and assert yourself in our modern condition is meditation.

Meditation is the act of returning awareness to its source.

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How Meditation Solves This

Meditation is the antidote to the meaning problem because it rescues your attention and cognitive hardware from being hijacked and damaged by an endless ocean of social media content that fragments your attention.

The quality of our lives is based on the quality of our attention.

Without protecting our attention, we become more prone to self-deception and lose our ability to access and discover meaning.

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Understanding Meditation Through Metaphor

The word attention stems from the Latin Attendere, which means 'to stretch toward'.

Think of attention like a rubber band. When we look out into the world, our awareness "stretches" toward objects. If instead the rubber band is continuously stretched without ever relaxing back to its original shape, strain and stress form on the rubber band.

In our lives, that strain looks like conflict, distraction, an existential sense of loneliness, and separation from others.

Through meditation, we allow awareness to relax into its natural state. The byproduct is a deep sense of causeless peace and happiness —what the Christians refer to as "a peace that passeth all understanding."

Exploring the relaxed state of awareness long enough, we discover a profound sense of interconnectedness with everyone and everything.

Meditation is simply about returning awareness to its source and abiding as yourself. In returning awareness to its home, we discover a limitless ocean of peace just behind our thinking and perceiving.

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How to Start

There are many ways to practice meditation, from indirect approaches (focusing on mantras or breath) to direct approaches (going directly into the source of awareness and simply being).

Meditation is an access point to the profound reality that is you. It's a portal outside the mind's self-preoccupation.

Meditation is an invitation to become a creator and not just a consumer.

Peace,

Alex

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