Attention. Energy. Outrage.

What’s Happening to Your Brain, Why, and What You Can Do About It

If attention is the substance of life, then the question of what we pay attention to is the question of what our lives will be.

Attention was a big deal one week after Trump’s 2025 inauguration when I waved my hands and jumped up and down to make you notice, in the Jan. 28 post, Gone is “the pursuit of happiness”; Instead, “the pursuit of attention”

Here we are 256 days later, and the battle for your attention is up close, personal, and beyond exhausting.

The mind-blowing events and feelings happening now have more to do with the cultural shift you are living through—more than any one election, hundreds of executive orders, or your changes around relationships or career moves.

We’re In This Together

Professionals, communicators, and adults with gifted minds all have this in common: What may feel like overload to many is a fascination with a thousands pieces of information that connect in patterns, which yield to critical thinking. Nothing in the AI universe can do critical thinking—just humans. We are the only ones who feel outrage, energy, joy, and show up every day to fight for clarity.

Our community is blessed with many, high-intelligent writers and truth seekers. They have excellent bullshit sniffers and you will lose if you try to spin them or insult them with lies and false narratives. In recent months they have come forward with something to say about our nervous system and paying attention to things that actually matter.

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Energy flows where attention goes.

Quantum physics and intuition tell us that your energy and whole brain power flow where your attention goes. Some writers are pitching energy as the ultimate—the end game. Instead of dithering with productivity tools and feeling guilty about attention, pay attention to energy.

Awareness about your energy and managing attention — whose words and actions get into your brain, is ultimate freedom. Only you can choose what you give your attention to or if you allow distractions, technology, cravings, anxieties, or the many advanced ways our attention can be seized by corporate or political interests. The key question is are you achieving what you ultimately desire or are your attentional wheels spinning on stuff that is not that important?

Notice what happens when you put energy management before time management or any other productivity system. Notice what happens when you see that the quality of your life and relationships with other humans matter more than any task list or project process.

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What About the Outrage We’re Feeling?

Remember, you get to choose what you read and choose information to give you the clarity and truth to power, which keeps your brain and whole body healthy.

One of the most refreshing and powerful writers covering attention, energy, and outrage is Mariah Faith Continelli. Her substack is The New Unhinged (Not here to influence, here to interrupt), started March 2025. In her post The Outrage Machine, she covers critical points of attention, energy, and survival.

“Outrage isn’t all created equal. Some anger is planted, some is real, and learning the difference is survival.”

The best part of her frequent posts is a disclaimer statement, crafted for each article. No AI here. Each disclaimer is original. She sets our expectation before we get to the first paragraph, and that’s an extremely brain-friendly, powerful habit. Nobody else on Substack does it. It’s one of the reasons we look forward to her every post.

Read the whole article because you’ll always find a satisfying, “so what can you do about it” element. This satisfies the primary driver for people in our community—we don’t want more information, we want the next step. We want transformation, not another transaction. We are all about final destinations and impact, not courses, workbooks, and tools.

Gifted Clarity Exposes What Others Look Away From

Another writer and champion of freedom and liberation for the gifted mind, professionals, and communicators is The Ferryman. He stirs conversation and that’s great for critical thinking. Some members thank us for introducing his books and work to the community and some members take issue with his comments.

It doesn’t take long to understand The Ferryman is writing for himself, not you. He writes to get the thoughts out of his head and into words and narratives. If it means something to you—great. If not, then talk among yourselves. Isn’t it marvelous to discover another thing AI will never do? Smile or shrug, your choice.

In his essay The Normalization of Blindness, The Ferryman shows us how narratives, framing, and self-censorship erode logic—and why gifted clarity exposes what others look away from.

There’s a lot to unpack in The Ferryman essays because he can cover in one story the connections and patterns of attention, energy, outrage, words, freedom of speech, freedom and liberation of the gifted mind, and current concerns around energy, food security, science, and nature.

“It may already be too late to reverse the tide within existing structures. We are entering a period darker than most can imagine: institutions are hollowed out, words lose their meaning, freedom is replaced by manageability. Yet this does not mean we are powerless. The only way out is not through the systems that confine us but through awareness of our own strength and essence.”

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