You can only care deeply about a handful of things. Picking them is most of the game.

Attention behaves like a budget, and caring about everything spreads it so thin that nothing gets the version of you that would have made a difference. Choosing sounds harsh, because it means letting go of real things. The choice happens either way though, and the only question is whether you make it or your notifications do.

Write down what you are currently trying to care about and cut the list to four or five. Let the rest be things you are simply fine with. Then give the short list the hours it implies, since an unfunded list is only a wish.