I put my brain on a diet

I can’t help having the compulsion, but I can redirect it. So instead of scrolling down the news websites, I read a few pages of a book, or exercise for a few minutes; I pick up the ukulele, or simply be, with permission to be bored.

I’m keenly interested to read the book mentioned in this piece and found the idea of never reading the news interesting as well. I’ve been curbing my time just idly scrolling the past two days and while I haven’t suddenly gotten a ton more done, I have let my brain rest and allowed myself to be bored and sit in quiet more. We’ll see where this leads me.