How to Reclaim Your Mind

Can You Reclaim Your Mind? To feel mentally alive, you have to do more than defeat distraction. Looking back over the columns I've written in 2025, I can see that a lot of them, broadly construed, have been about reclaiming one's mind. I wrote about living in the present, picturing the future, and exploring one's memories; about reading, learning, and making the most of one's spare time; and about whether artificial intelligence will end up expanding our thinking or limiting it . The shared subject was resistance to the forces, malevolent or inertial, that can render us mentally exhausted and scattered.