🧠📱Your Mind Is Basically TikTok (and That Should Terrify You a Little)

A scroll through consciousness, the subconscious, willpower, and discipline

💬 Introduction — You think you’re in charge? Cute.

Let’s be honest.
You think you’re in control of your life, right?

That you, noble and rational being, are making conscious decisions based on values, logic, and profound self-awareness?

Nah.

Your brain is TikTok.
More precisely: it’s a messy social media feed full of recycled ideas, unresolved trauma, and cat videos wearing existential dread.

📱 The Subconscious = Your “For You” Page

When you open TikTok, do you ask for 28 straight videos of people whispering affirmations, air-frying cheese, or explaining how you’ve been emotionally unavailable since 2009?

No.

But you get them.

That’s your subconscious at work.
It doesn’t ask you what you want.
It gives you what you’ve already fed it.
Repeatedly. Consistently.
Whether it serves you or not.

Your feed is your mind.
And your mind is made of habits.

🔍 The Conscious Mind = The Search Bar You Never Use

There is a search bar, though.

You could type:

• “How to break a toxic cycle”
• “How to build better habits”
• “How to stop dating the same emotionally unavailable person in different fonts”

But you don’t.
Because using the search bar takes effort.
Clarity. Intention.
And your conscious mind, bless it, is trying — but it’s exhausted. Distracted. Overstimulated.

Your conscious mind is the part of you that wants change.
But it’s operating in a feed designed to keep you the same.

⚡ Willpower = That First, Brave Click

One day, you scroll past the usual stuff and — wait — what’s this?

A video on emotional accountability?
A post about setting boundaries?

You click it.

That’s willpower.
A single, intentional act against the algorithm.
You override the autopilot.
You say: “I want better.”

It’s courageous.
It’s rare.
It’s… not enough.

Not by itself.

🔁 Discipline = Training the Algorithm

The second time you click something similar, the feed changes a little.

By the tenth time, it changes a lot.

Suddenly, you’re seeing content that supports your new path.
You’re in a different echo chamber — one you chose.

That’s discipline.

Not flashy.
Not loud.
Just repetition. Just data.
Feeding the algorithm until the algorithm feeds you differently.

You reprogram your brain the same way you train your feed: by showing up. Every day.

🧠 The Brain-TikTok Blueprint

• Subconscious = Default feed
• Consciousness = Search bar
• Willpower = First click
• Discipline = Repeated behavior that reshapes what shows up

It’s not magic. It’s mechanics.
You’re not broken.
You’re algorithmic.

🧩 Final Thought — You Are the User, the Click, and the Feed

Your brain is not a prison — it’s a platform.

And you’re not just the user.
You’re the data.
The click.
The algorithm.

You become what you repeat.
You scroll into who you are.

So next time your mind serves you a reel of fear, insecurity, or self-sabotage…
Ask yourself:
What have I been watching?
And more importantly:
What do I want to watch instead?