There is a small test most men fail many times a day without noticing. The kettle is boiling. The lift is climbing. The page is loading. A gap of fifteen empty seconds opens in front of you, and your hand reaches for your phone before any decision is made. The gap gets filled. The test is failed, quietly, and you move on with no sense that anything happened.
Nothing did happen, and that is the problem. Each of those moments used to be a small repetition of a skill, the way a light set keeps a muscle from wasting. The skill is the ability to sit inside an unstimulating moment without escaping it. Most of us have lost it without ever deciding to give it up.
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