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Unrot Your Brain
Sit with the buzz of discomfort
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
-where does the discomfort stem from
-write like your brain depends on it
Because it kind of does. Just start writing. Use your notes app. Open a doc. A scrap paper. Spill thoughts. Follow tangents. Let yourself ramble. Write something ugly and tangled and undeveloped. Not to produce or sound intelligent, but it’s to hear yourself again. To track the way your mind moves. To think your... See more
Because it kind of does. Just start writing. Use your notes app. Open a doc. A scrap paper. Spill thoughts. Follow tangents. Let yourself ramble. Write something ugly and tangled and undeveloped. Not to produce or sound intelligent, but it’s to hear yourself again. To track the way your mind moves. To think your... See more
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
You don’t need to be entertained every second. In fact, you shouldn’t be. Remember when you could stare out the car/train/plane window for the entirity of a long trip?
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... See more
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... See more
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
Your brain isn’t broken. You haven’t peaked. You’re not doomed to scroll yourself into oblivion. It’s still in there—that sharp, curious, wide-eyed version of you. The one who read books for fun and asked big questions and thought deeply, even when no one was watching. This is about becoming the present version of you. The curious one. The engaged... See more
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
Write something ugly and tangled and undeveloped. Not to produce or sound intelligent, but it’s to hear yourself again. To track the way your mind moves. To think your own thoughts without structure or pressure or input. You write to find out what you think. To watch your brain unfold
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
write to hear yourself is so touching, I think sometimes I hear myself but its hard to know which voices to listen to .
How to unrot rehabilitate your brain:
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
Every video i watch and article i read on procrastination and phone “addiction“ and how to get better at it and quit rotting your brain gives you these tips like “quit your phone” or “touch some grass” “sit in silence, get used to being bored” but none of them actually give a diagnosis for it. The things that i mentioned above are just “remedies”, not the root of the problem that we all confront with. Has anyone asked WHY does no one want to get bored, WHY is everyone spending so much damn time on that phone, WHY have i been “addicted“ to the internet since i was 10 years old?
This is about becoming the present version of you. The curious one. The engaged one. The one who used to lie awake thinking about big things—not because you had to, but because your mind had the peace to do so and wanted to.
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
why was it so easy as kids to focus on things and didn’t need the stimulation of phone screens every 10 seconds
-learn something that fascinates you
Pick a topic, anything. Become obsessed. Not to be graded or read. Not to get ahead. Just for the thrill of it. Write a thesis, do the research, produce the paper. Watch lectures. Take notes. Make PowerPoints no one will ever see. Make homework for yourself, like you used to. Give yourself a deadline in one... See more
Pick a topic, anything. Become obsessed. Not to be graded or read. Not to get ahead. Just for the thrill of it. Write a thesis, do the research, produce the paper. Watch lectures. Take notes. Make PowerPoints no one will ever see. Make homework for yourself, like you used to. Give yourself a deadline in one... See more