How To Slowly Reduce Your Triggers
It’s not easy, but it’s relatively simple and doable if you can breathe deep and practice some willpower.
We have nine million terms for the current economy, from “On-Demand” to “AI” to “Stagflation” or whatever the new term of the moment is. I’ve heard “Knowledge Economy” a few times, which is laughable — for the amount of information we have out there, we have very limited knowledge. One term I’d submit is “The Triggered Economy,” because it seems like there’s a lot of time, money, attention, eyeballs, etc. in triggering people around topics they don’t like and/or general fears they have. If attention is currency, triggering is a good way to move money. Triggering might be the JP Morgan of The Attention Economy.
I myself have spent about two decades getting periodically to often triggered by a series of things. A lot of this is because I was boozing a lot at different periods therein.
I’m 42 now, still generally a semi-pathetic mess, but I’ve taken some steps to reduce some of my triggers. Let me give…
