Your brain is hostage. Your entire personality is hostage. You cannot grasp how much better your life will become if you stop watching TV, using social media and all overstimulation. Reduce your activities to only: -Work -Reading (fiction is fine) -Exercise -Low-stimulation creative hobbies (guitar, writing, etc.) -Direct human interaction No scrolling. No TV. No drinking. No video games. Intentional. Purposeful. Boredom. Through this boredom your brain will reach absurd clarity. Left alone, this clarity will turn towards things that improve your life. Those things will become addictively fun. Here are two simple ways to test yourself. A) Crack open a fiction novel. A good one, so you have no excuses. Can you sit and read for an hour straight? 95% of people cannot do this. B) During the day, measure how much time you spend doing nothing. If you are like most people, there is not a single moment where you sit with your thoughts. Zero moments where you allow yourself to be bored. Every empty moment is filled with a screen/some form of stimulation. If you can't do A...And B is out of control...The solution is to simply...Start practicing both. Drop all the overstimulation. Give yourself only 4 options. Work Read Exercise Sit and be bored That's it. You will be shocked how easy 1, 2 and 3 become when you don't give your brain any other option. Even better...You will notice your personality and creativity returns...that vibe you had when you were a kid...when you allow your brain to just sit... Do it. You'll unlock super powers.
