unrot your brain
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unrot your brain
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.
unrot your brain
remember who you were before the dullness set in
unrot your brain
Jan before social media:
- Read books
- Random walks
- Wrote stories
- Watched courses
- Drew
- Cut up stuff
- Rearranged room
- Danced
- Street photography
And maybe I needed the break. Maybe after years of pressure and burnout and noise, I earned a little numbness. But no one warns you how easy it is to slip from rest into rot.
unrot your brain
IT’S SO EASY TO SLIP FROM REST → ROT! Wow. People now have equated rest to rotting when in reality it just numbs them. Feeds their minds with junk. Overwhelms them. Exposes them to comparison tendencies, insecurities, and feeling behind. What’s so restful about that? Maybe that’s why people don’t feel rested. It’s cause they do it with screens.
the fight to feel sharp again
unrot your brain
more benefits to quitting doomscrolling. curiosities: what does feeling sharp feel like exactly? what’s the opposite of it? foggy mind? scatter-brain?