Noise Has No Lease

17 Sep, 2025

People love to overcomplicate self-awareness like it’s a seminar, a TED Talk, or some app subscription. It’s not. It’s noticing the noise, deciding if it belongs, and kicking it out the same door it came in.

What Self-Awareness Actually Is

Self-awareness is the ability to notice yourself — your thoughts, feelings, impulses, and why you act — without letting them run the place.

• Awareness = noticing the noise.
• Self-awareness = noticing how the noise is about you.
• Execution = doing something different after you notice.

What Self-Aware People Do

• Catch an impulse before acting.
• Name their feelings without inventing drama.
• Admit when they’re wrong or confused — quickly.
• Don’t outsource responsibility for how they feel.
• Use feedback as data, not a verdict.

What It’s Not

• Not a course you check off.
• Not constant perfection.
• Not the same as being “nice.”
• Not a personality trait fixed at birth.

Quick Drills — 7 Days, No Excuses

1. Notice: Every time you feel a spike (anger, itch, urge), name it.
2. Pause: When the spike hits, wait 10 seconds.
3. Ask why: “What story am I telling myself right now?”
4. Check facts: Story true, or fiction that sounds dramatic?
5. Choice: Pick one small different action than the impulse.
6. Feedback: Tell one person you’re trying this; ask if they noticed.
7. Log: Write one blunt line about what you learned. Repeat next week.

Fast Hacks

• Breath 4-4-4: inhale 4s, hold 4s, exhale 4s.
• Name it to tame it: saying the feeling out loud lowers the volume.
• 24 Rule: will it matter in 24 hours, 24 weeks, 24 years?
• Three-word rule: Name — Pause — Choose.

Why People Fail at It

Because self-awareness means ownership. Ownership kills ego. And ego loves excuses, drama, and playing victim. So when the noise gets evicted, the ego goes big mad — not because you failed, but because you stopped feeding it.

The Boris' Lines

“You don’t gain self-awareness. You either notice the noise or you don’t. When you do notice, you lead the noise right out the same way it came in.”

Book of Boris — Self-Made Clarity (Addendum Verse):

• Noise doesn’t pay rent.
• Self-awareness isn’t gained, taught, or begged for.
• It’s eviction — clean, cold, and immediate.
• Lead the noise out the same way it came in.

Graffiti of the Reckoning Tag:

• "Noise Has No Lease."

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