Stop Letting Algorithms Choose Your Reality
You often don’t realize your day begins before you wake up. Not because you planned it that way, no. It’s because AI and algorithms planned it for you.
Your phone lights up. Instagram wants your eyes. TikTok wants your time. X wants your reaction. YouTube wants your curiosity. Facebook wants your attention. These systems move faster than your biology can. Before you can even ask yourself who you want to be that day, half a dozen apps have already offered their answer.
Think your brain was built for this?
And that’s the real challenge of modern life: we’re living in an environment our nervous system never evolved to handle.
Who is shaping your life, your reality?
Sasha Lekach
A single scroll on any platform delivers more emotional signals than earlier generations encountered in a week. Every tap opens a mental loop, a cycle. Every feed refresh brings a new set of demands for your attention, and each one urgent, each one engineered to feel personal.
When this becomes normal, clarity becomes scarce.
You stop knowing what deserves your attention.
Your internal world becomes noisier than your external one.
You feel mentally crowded, even before the day has officially begun.
The Energetic Information Hypothesis (EIH) explains why:
Attention is the energy that organizes the informational field inside you.
Whatever you focus on becomes the structure your mind stabilizes around.
But algorithms don’t care about stability.
They care about retention.
Algorithms, AI, can predict what will keep you staring.
It cannot (will not) predict what will keep you sane.
And the more content you consume before you choose your direction, the more reactive your mind becomes. You start your day not with intention, but with absorption.
This is why:
- small problems feel bigger
- uncertainty feels threatening
- silence feels like rejection
- everything feels urgent
- nothing feels grounded
It’s not you.
It’s overload.
When the mind is overwhelmed with too much information, it shifts from perceiving...
→ to predicting.
And predictions, under stress, lean toward fear, conflict, or imagined danger. At the same time, algorithms are predicting what you’ll click on next, and both systems are optimized for speed, not truth.
Internal noise rises because your system is trying to maintain coherence inside an environment that never slows down.
“Platforms are designed to capture attention, often by amplifying emotional content that increases cognitive load.” — UT Austin Center for Media Engagement
But here’s the turning point:
You don’t need to outrun AI-level noise.
You only need to take back the first choice of the day.
And that starts with one deceptively simple habit:
Choose one true line each morning:
“Today, my mind points to ___.”
This small act reclaims your direction before the world claims it for you.
It doesn’t matter whether the line is “patience,” “focus,” “honesty,” or “one meaningful task.” What matters is that you chose it, and not TikTok, not Instagram, not a recommendation engine trying to predict what will keep your thumb moving.
Why this works: Stable direction reduces internal entropy spikes.
Your mind calms when it knows what matters.
Your energy stabilizes when it has one point to organize around.
Your clarity returns when your internal world has something solid to lean on.
This isn’t about escaping the digital world.
You can’t.
And you don’t need to.
It’s about refusing to let algorithms choose the first thought in your mind.
Because when you let platforms decide your focus, your day begins in reaction.
When you choose your direction, your day begins in alignment.
Aligned minds see reality accurately.
Aligned minds stay steady in a world built to scatter them.
You don’t need a new world to feel clear.
You need a clearer mind inside the world you already have.
Start with one true line.
Before Instagram.
Before TikTok.
Before the algorithms take their shot.
Shape your life.
Today, your mind points to clarity.
A. Karacay
Stay curious!
