Saved by Noortje Klomp and
unrot your brain
Let yourself sit in silence. No phone. No music. No stimulation. Just 10 or 15 minutes of mental stillness a day. Stare out a window. Stare at the ceiling. Sit with the buzz of discomfort. It’s not about being bored—it’s about giving your brain the space to recalibrate.
Kylee • unrot your brain
Get used to boredom to make space, instead of having to top up with endless dopamine and be constantly stimulated.
If you’re anything like me, you miss thinking for the sake of thinking. You want the curiosity back. The attention span back. The ability to sit with a question, really sit with it, without reaching for a distraction every ten seconds. To want to engage again. To feel mentally present. To reclaim the part of you that used to light up at complexity... See more
Kylee • unrot your brain
Being over-stimulated with low nutritional stimulus makes us feel overwhelmed when it comes to complexity. We want that reward quick to keep the dopamine coming, instead of having to take time to chew down the bone to get to the essence. It’s like junk food - even though they’re bad for our health, it still tastes good, and it’s cheap and convenient.
Post-grad hit like a hazy fog that won’t lift. No more assigned reading, no more late-night debates, no more papers that gave me a reason to think. Now I scroll. I skim. I start articles and abandon them halfway through. I lose my train of thought mid-conversation. I forget words I used to know by heart.
It’s like the muscle that once made me feel... See more
It’s like the muscle that once made me feel... See more
Kylee • unrot your brain
When learning has low stakes (i.e. not linked to academic success or failure), we treat it as a good-to-have and slowly, a disposable commodity.