Your Amanuensis

The Buddha

An amanuensis is an assistant, especially one who takes dictation. Your thoughts and your ego devote most of your waking hours to convincing you that they are necessary, if not to your existence, at least to your competent functioning as a person. They persuade you that they are a loyal amanuensis.

I never had this problem, likely because I had meditated enough before I thought of it, but one can easily see how it might slow some…