Alyssa Carrai

Give yourself an enemies to lovers arc with learning. When you’re falling in love you want to know more about them, the same thing will happen with learning, researching.

We’re spending more and more time on things, while feeling less and less in them.

Our presence is scattered, our focus fractured; and it often feels like a personal failing.

But attention is a limited resource. And it’s being constantly pulled (hijacked, really) by an ecosystem built to monetize distraction.

This loss of agency over our own attention that many of us are experiencing is not about willpower. It’s about neuroscience

we weren’t just young, we were present . Our attention was sharper, our awareness wider. The world was unfamiliar, and our brains, hungry for understanding, devoured every detail.

The benefits of self-studying academic subjects

Here are some other benefits I’ve gotten from self-studying subjects of interest:

• Become smarter by reading and learning. You can think of a self-study habit as an exercise routine for your brain. (for skeptics, here’s a breakdown of a 40-year study suggesting reading makes people more intelligent)

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