You wake up, and you are already out of focus.

Your brain has accumulated static overnight. Your body remembers yesterday's tension. You pick up your phone, and the incoming flood of other people's thoughts, news, and anxieties knocks your "zero point" off completely.

You step into the day like an out-of-tune instrument. Like scales that lie by a kilogram. Like a compass pointing to iron, not north.

And you wonder why the day goes wrong. Why decisions are crooked. Why reactions are hysterical.

The problem is not the world. The problem is that your measuring device is skewed.

Imagine an astronomer looking through a telescope. Before searching for stars, he wipes the lens. He checks the settings. He calibrates the axis.

If the lens is dirty, he will see dust, not the cosmos. If the axis is shifted, he will see the wrong galaxy.

You are that telescope. You are the instrument through which you perceive reality.

If the axis is off, you are not a subject, you are an object. You do not act, you react. You mistake external signals for your own thoughts and obediently execute programs uploaded into you.

It is not a prayer. It is a technical procedure. You must set "zero." Return the needle to the neutral position. Clear the clipboard.

The world is chaos. Entropy. Your task is to be the axis of order in this chaos. But to create order, you yourself must be structured.

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Do not grab tasks. Do not dive into social media. Create a vacuum. Five minutes of absolute emptiness. Let the noise in your head settle like sediment in a glass of water. You cannot see clearly while the water is murky.

Return attention to the body. Feel gravity. Feel your weight. You are not a cloud of thoughts. You are a physical object standing on the ground. Find your center of gravity. This is your base.

Ask yourself: What is the main thing today?  Not "what do I need to do." But what for am I doing this. Choose one dominant. One principle. One goal. This is your filter. Everything that does not pass through this filter is just noise.

*Only after this—engage.

Until you are calibrated, you do not exist. There are only automatic reactions. Noise. Other people's fears.

Do not go out into the world until you have regained control. Do not start the game until you have remembered the rules. Settings to zero.

Do not open the door until you understand exactly who is walking out.

You wake up, and you are already out of focus.

Your brain has accumulated static overnight. Your body remembers yesterday's tension. You pick up your phone, and the incoming flood of other people's thoughts, news, and anxieties knocks your "zero point" off completely.

You step into the day like an out-of-tune instrument. Like scales that lie by a kilogram. Like a compass pointing to iron, not north.

And you wonder why the day goes wrong. Why decisions are crooked. Why reactions are hysterical.

The problem is not the world. The problem is that your measuring device is skewed.

Imagine an astronomer looking through a telescope. Before searching for stars, he wipes the lens. He checks the settings. He calibrates the axis.

If the lens is dirty, he will see dust, not the cosmos. If the axis is shifted, he will see the wrong galaxy.

You are that telescope. You are the instrument through which you perceive reality.

If the axis is off, you are not a subject, you are an object. You do not act, you react. You mistake external signals for your own thoughts and obediently execute programs uploaded into you.

It is not a prayer. It is a technical procedure. You must set "zero." Return the needle to the neutral position. Clear the clipboard.

The world is chaos. Entropy. Your task is to be the axis of order in this chaos. But to create order, you yourself must be structured.

/

Do not grab tasks. Do not dive into social media. Create a vacuum. Five minutes of absolute emptiness. Let the noise in your head settle like sediment in a glass of water. You cannot see clearly while the water is murky.

Return attention to the body. Feel gravity. Feel your weight. You are not a cloud of thoughts. You are a physical object standing on the ground. Find your center of gravity. This is your base.

Ask yourself: What is the main thing today?  Not "what do I need to do." But what for am I doing this. Choose one dominant. One principle. One goal. This is your filter. Everything that does not pass through this filter is just noise.

*Only after this—engage.

Until you are calibrated, you do not exist. There are only automatic reactions. Noise. Other people's fears.

Do not go out into the world until you have regained control. Do not start the game until you have remembered the rules. Settings to zero.

Do not open the door until you understand exactly who is walking out.