Dallas Bragg compares recovery from addiction to an algorithm: every input you choose—what you see, think, say, and who you're around—shapes your mental feed. When negative inputs dominate, the algorithm reinforces a negative worldview and increases relapse risk. Start by auditing your eyes, thoughts, words, and social circle, then deliberately replace negative patterns with positive ones.
I want you to think of your recovery as an algorithm, your own personal algorithm. Anything that you click on, click on with your eyes, click on with your thoughts, click on with your words, click on with your attention. Anything you're clicking on is showing the algorithm, this is what I want more of. This is what I want to see. So if most of what you feel, think, say, look at is negative, that's what the feed of your life is going to look like. Your life is actually just an extension of the algorithm you've built. If you spend a lot of time shaming yourself, doubting yourself, and punishing yourself for the mistakes that you've made or the, or the lack of progress you've made in your recovery Or how you're not getting it right, or you're not like them. Those thoughts, that's what you're clicking on. That's what you're building your algorithm. So that's going to be your state of mind, and that's how you're going to see your world. That's going to lead you right back to relapse because that's what you've classified as failure. That's what you've classified as not doing well. And so the algorithm thinks that's what you want more of. Do an audit today. Where are your eyes? Where are your thoughts? Where are your words? Who are you around? Look at the algorithm you're building for your life and change it. And just like a regular algorithm, it won't change like that. You have to build momentum, but start today, right now.
