unrot your brain
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unrot your brain
Try the Navy SEAL nap if you need structure: lie on the floor, feet up on the couch, 20 minutes max. It’s not lazy. It’s neurological recovery.
unrot your brain
what even is this and does it actually help with recalibrating your brain after experiencing brain rot
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 own thoughts without structure or pressure or input. You... See more
unrot your brain
- it really is that damn phone
Step away from the infinite scroll and give your brain a second to remember how to think without being spoon-fed. Not in a dramatic, I'm-quitting-social-media-forever way. Just pause. Let your dopamine system stop firing like a broken vending machine and your prefrontal cortex to actually breathe. And while you're at... See more
Step away from the infinite scroll and give your brain a second to remember how to think without being spoon-fed. Not in a dramatic, I'm-quitting-social-media-forever way. Just pause. Let your dopamine system stop firing like a broken vending machine and your prefrontal cortex to actually breathe. And while you're at... See more
unrot your brain
You just need to remember: your brain is still yours.
Unrot it. Reclaim it. Wake it back up.
Unrot it. Reclaim it. Wake it back up.
unrot your brain
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.
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
How to unrot rehabilitate your brain:
unrot your brain
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?
-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