Sometimes you have to step outside the modern materialistic paradigm.

When you find yourself perched atop a Himalayan foothill, leaning against a millennium-old tree, something changes in the way you relate to nature.
The sheer balance of the elements does something to you.
(I’m not talking about calcium and potassium).
…
Attention economics missed this entirely.

Zoned in, doubled down, direction-bound attention.
You inevitably exhaust yourself, like a tensed-up racecar driver collapsing after a tournament.
So you breathe, de-intensifying your energy for the purpose of re-laxing yourself. Only to wander off, or lose the drive to remain alert in the first…