You charge your phone every night. When’s the last time you recharged your attention?

You have a whole ritual for the battery in your pocket and none for the one in your head. Attention gets spent all day, on school, on noise, on a feed designed never to conclude, and then you sleep without ever letting it settle. Tiredness and depletion are not the same thing. You can get eight hours and still run on empty.

Give yourself twenty minutes of nothing today. No input, no podcast, no second screen, even if that means a walk or lying on the floor. Notice how uncomfortable the first five minutes are, then stay with it anyway.