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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 .
-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
-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
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
-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
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
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
Sit with the buzz of discomfort
Kylee • Unrot Your Brain
-where does the discomfort stem from
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
because my mind felt electric. Alive .
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