A man wakes up and does not reach for his phone. For the first hour of his day, there are no notifications, no headlines, no urgent messages from colleagues who forgot the difference between urgent and important. He drinks coffee in silence, watches light move across the wall, thinks his own thoughts before anyone else's.
In 1950, this would be ordinary. In 2025, it is quietly revolutionary.
This deliberate choice rejects the assumption that your attention belongs to everyone else by default. That your morning mind, your focused hours, your present moment are public resources to be claimed by whoever shouts loudest. The modern world operates on a simple premise: you will react. And reaction, dressed up as productivity, has become the organising principle of contemporary life.
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