The internet is designed to keep you scrolling.

Not thinking. Not learning.

Most people check out the second a conversation gets difficult.

Not “heated.” Just difficult.

Hard conversations — about data, about money, about failure — get ignored, not because they’re wrong, but because they’re inconvenient. They feel uncomfortable.

And this is why so many of us never learn the most important lessons.

• Learning is not fun.

• Real growth feels terrible while you’re doing it.

• Engagement online isn’t built on wisdom — it’s built on what people already believe.

Once you see this, you can’t unsee it.

You stop expecting people to stay.

And you start focusing on the few who don’t check out.

Because the future is always built by the people willing to sit in the discomfort and keep going.