Our number of options grew at an exponential rate compared to the discipline of our focus.
For your profession, it used to be you did whatever your parents did. No need to discipline your focus because there wasn’t much else to focus on. The focus was singular (which is powerful) without ever having to keep it in check. The beauty and freedom of limited options.
Now the options we can focus on are limitless. We can deep dive into every whim and thought. We can hear about what everyone in the world is doing and decide to change what we’re doing. And then add to that everyone else’s whims and thoughts of the day, ready to be scrolled.
So we have to learn to discipline and limit our focus…because our effectiveness depends on it.
