# Chapter 41

There are so many great things that you can spend your time practicing and learning. Even really hard and difficult things. But you will never be able to do that if you are mainlining the news on TV. All they talk about is Covid-19 and politics, who knew what when, and generally who is worse than someone else. The attention economy is more intense than ever before. Everyone wants your attention and will do all that they can to get it, include making you angry or fearful. So there are probably several good ways to mitigate the pull of the attention economy on your life, but the only one that works great for me is limits. No TV, little social media, no doomscrolling and stay off the TV! Oh I already mentioned that.

Then you will have time and space to practice hard things, to improve your skills, to attempt to do something important and world changing and life-changing. I don’t think it is possible to overstate how much time and attention are taken up by TV and social media and doomscrolling, nor how much energy, space and possibility is freed up by removing these things from your life. You cannot change the world or change your life while doing these attention-sucking activities, which are so powerful even though they are also passive.

Take charge of your life and make a huge difference. It’s closer and more possible than you think. You are capable of far more than you think. You have far more potential than you have shown so far. You can do this. You got this.