The self we can’t stop monitoring is attention with nothing else to hold. Easy work leaves the spare room. Hard work spends it — though spending it can buy panic just as easily as absorption. Which makes difficulty a design choice, not a mood.
What it says
The inner critic shows up when work’s easy.
Day one, the job’s simple, and our attention has slack.
So it spends the leftovers on watching ourselves work.
Day nine, the job gets harder, and the watching stops.
And then a hard week swallows us whole, and we panic anyway.
So a full head is needed, and it isn’t enough.
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Voiceover is AI-generated. Ideas come from books I have read.
