Attention Deficit for Ego

Metaphorical Narrative

Imagine scrolling through a feed where every post is ego shouting. You skip past them like someone with selective ADHD. The feed never ends, but you don’t care. You’ve trained your thumb to scroll without pause, stopping only when something chosen, real, and relevant appears. Ego hates being ignored; it starves on indifference.

Core Insight

Not every input deserves processing. Automatic thoughts and feelings are noise until your attention turns them into narrative. By deliberately cultivating “attention deficit” toward ego chatter, you prevent wasted energy and allow true presence to emerge. Most ego posts disappear when not clicked.

Identity Shift Tie-In

Attention is sovereign currency. You are not deficit; you are selective. Your new identity doesn’t grant ego airtime. The deficit is the strategy. Ownership means training your spotlight to shine only where you want it.

Saturday Experiment

For 24 hours, your executive function decides what earns attention.

• Ego commentary is not processed — it is ignored as irrelevant data.
• When chatter appears, you say: “This has no weight.”
• Your full attention is directed only toward two actions chosen at the start of the day. Everything else is binned.

Sunday Reflection

• What did ignoring ego feel like in your body?
• How many posts disappeared without effort?
• What tasks felt lighter when you scrolled past ego noise?