The algorithm is training us

I follow this Christian Psychologist named Sean Tobin. He has a lot of really insightful things to say.  Here is a summary of one that will help us understand what social media algorithm is doing to us:  
The Algorithm Traffics in Reaction — Choose Response Instead
Here’s the distinction that matters most right now:
Algorithms train you to react. A healthy inner life trains you to respond.
Modern platforms and algorithms have one core purpose: capture and hold your attention. They don’t wait for your intention. They watch your every pause, scroll, and click, then feed you more of whatever keeps you hooked. Over time, this doesn’t just distract;  it forms you. It creates a restless, surface-level person who drifts toward the next stimulus before fully processing the present one. Quiet feels like boredom, so you reach for another hit. Reaction becomes your default mode.
The alternative is responsive living: a practiced, interior awareness that lets you notice what’s actually happening inside you and what the moment truly requires. It’s not mystical. It’s the cultivated ability to sit with quiet, feel your own signals (clarity, unease, desire), and act from discernment instead of impulse. No AI can do this for you. Algorithms can organize information and generate options, but they have zero access to your interior life.
Tools are fine. Surrendering your interior is not.
AI is just a tool. The danger isn’t the technology; it’s using powerful tools while your attention and judgment have already been hollowed out by algorithmic conditioning. A person with an ordered inner life can use AI effectively without becoming its product. A reactive person cannot. They don’t partner with the tool; they get completed by it.
In an age engineered for reaction, the most urgent work is protecting and deepening the one thing technology cannot touch: your own interior.
Reclaim the space between stimulus and response. That space is where your freedom, wisdom, and real life live. Protect it fiercely.