Welcome to the Attention Economy–where you are the product. In this digital landscape, they keep score with eyeballs and eardrums. Your attention–even for a few seconds–translates into cold, hard cash they're willing to manipulate and even hack you for.
The truth is, you're getting hacked every day, and you don't even realize it. A hack is when someone or something gains unauthorized access to a computer or a system. Want to know something scary? People can be hacked. It happens millions of times a day. Your focus is the prize–and they'll hack you to get it.
Buzz. Ring. Beep. Five minutes in, another disruption. Notifications flash across your screen. Your phone vibrates. Now you can crave a distraction and the dopamine fix. Scroll. Scroll. Productivity plummets. Morale declines.
The average person:
We suffer from decision fatigue and digital distractions. Human knowledge once doubled every thousand years. Today, it’s every twelve hours. No wonder we can’t keep up.
God created us in His image to create. We’re not called to be critics or consumers. Technology isn’t the enemy. But unless we discover how to use it, technology will end up using us—or hacking us.
When life hacks you, you’ll feel a loss of
Worse yet, you make powerful negative declarations about yourself and your resources. Notice the pattern below.
A Hack Attack causes you to say
Hack Attacks start out externally, but they quickly manifest internally. The four I am and I have declarations shape how you see yourself and the world around you. Perspective matters, and when it’s hacked, everything else is hacked too.
According to Anais Nin, “We don’t see things the way they are, but the way we are.” You soon believe two lies:
First lie: I Am Nobody.
Second lie: I Have Nothing.
When this occurs, you’re done. Thankfully, there’s another way and another world.