You Already Have What You’re Looking For

And you deserve a minute to pause and appreciate it.

Hey there, if your week felt noisy, scattered, or like your brain was running on fumes, I just want you to know: I see you. I appreciate you. And you’re not alone. A recent study found that 66% of employed Americans report feeling burned out, and over half of Gen Z and millennials say they regularly feel mentally exhausted.

But here’s the part that gives me hope:

You’re carrying the most advanced piece of technology in the known universe—inside your skull. Your brain runs on less power than a lightbulb and still outperforms every machine we’ve ever built. It has 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections. It learns, repairs, adapts, dreams, and it came standard.

This isn’t science fiction. This is you. But no one teaches us this, not in school, not in the workplace. Instead, most of us grow up believing computers are smarter than we are, and that we’re supposed to keep up with them.

That’s why I’ve been shifting focus from human rights advocacy to human value, including starting my new 1‑Minute Wonder Micropodcast—a simple, awe-filled daily reminder of the miracle you already are. In this video I highlight the basic brain power facts that most of us forget and take for granted.

And yet, while your brain keeps working miracles, the world around us seems to be missing the point.

We’re pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI development. Massive data centers are rising across the country—some as big as Manhattan and many consuming more electricity than a large city—all in a race to build smarter machines.

But the paradox is: we’re investing more in mimicking intelligence than we are in understanding or supporting our own. I wrote about this in a new op-ed for The Epoch Times and how in the rush to build artificial minds, we’ve forgotten about the power of our human ones.

🧠 Read the op-ed: “Billions for AI, But Not a Clue About Ourselves” (hopefully it is published by the time you read this!)

And maybe that’s the real issue.

In all our striving to keep up, to stay productive, and to meet impossible expectations, we forget that our biology isn’t built for constant output. It’s built for rhythm, recalibration, and calm.

I wrote about that on Calm Rebellion on LinkedIn this week—about how your nervous system holds onto stress, even after your mind moves on. And about how the cure isn’t more pressure or productivity but the radical choice to slow down. Although we’ve been conditioned to believe taking a pause is an indulgence, it really is a vital necessity.

🕊️ Read: “Are You One of the 85%?”

So if you’ve been holding your breath all week… here’s your permission to let go. You don’t need to become something more. You just need the space to remember what you already are.

See you next week,
Kay