You used to want it. You used to be hungry. You used to love the challenge. But then you got soft. Life became dull. You became numb. At some point y… - Dan Koe

Collective mental energy is what creates modern power. From the bottom up, key pillars of the external world's structure are fueled by unconscious attention, intention, and will.

The human mind did not evolve over thousands of years to have hundreds of unfiltered opinions thrown at it every hour through a screen. You wouldn't let 100 random people break into your house, eat your food, and sleep there. Yet you willingly do that with your mind.

Your mind is a set of complex systems, like a supercomputer. Even though I do not believe this is a metaphor that can explain the full complexity of consciousness, it helps illustrate a point. Like how a computer can slow down when you have too many tasks, tabs, apps, or other programs running, so can your mind. When your attention is split, or your focus is fragmented, suffering increases in potentiality.