Grow With Intention by MuchelleB

How to Unrot Your Brain

Grow With Intention by MuchelleB

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In this video I want to talk about how to reverse intellectual laziness, how to get your attention span back, and how to get back to having original thoughts again - and these are all based on my own journey with brain rot, reducing media usage in my own life and how it’s impacted me.VIDEOS YOU MIGHT LIKE ⇢✨ How to Change Your Life in Six Months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEQbSb_2rQU&list=PLW3yd6NHmEVp_dlOxoROdW4WB0_eiFRAT&index=1&ab_channel=muchelleb✨If you’re wasting all of your time, you need to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPGnRzcD1Eo&list=PLW3yd6NHmEVrxrOSvViA1PcZVh3hhD6cs&index=9✨18 Small Changes to Make for a Happier Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c8cN3lH0zY&list=PLW3yd6NHmEVrRqdEg2mFrp9r7CEq6LqRF&index=1VIDEO TIMELINE ⇢00:00 How Brain Rot Is Impacting Your Life0:29 What IS Brain Rot?0:57 Quitting Social Media Isn't Enough1:39 The Only Plan That Works Long-Term2:18 A Weekly Anti-Brain Rot Ritual4:05 How to Have Original Thoughts Again5:30 3 Types of Brain Rot7:40 How to Stop Doomscrolling8:26 A Tiny Way to Fix Your Attention Span9:25 The #1 Sign You’ll Waste Your DayLINKS ⇢Judd Brewer is an expert on rewiring behaviour through awareness. You might enjoy his video on breaking habits here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moW9jvvMr4&ab_channel=TEDTo learn more about Nic Petersons Principles for life, you might enjoy his book bumpers: https://amzn.to/3HUB6B5If you want to watch me creating my “weekly vision board”, you can do that here: https://youtu.be/htjoZc5z_3w?t=625I sourced the story involving George R.R. Martin from the wonderful book, Bored and Brilliant, which contains a bunch of interesting information and stories related to the power of boredom: https://youtu.be/htjoZc5z_3w?t=625If you’re interested in how listening to gossip can impact you, these results suggest that gossip serves self-evaluative functions for gossip receivers and can trigger self-conscious emotions. Sometimes gossip actually helps you to grow - but sometimes it makes you more self-conscious - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267730388_Tell_Me_the_Gossip_The_Self-Evaluative_Function_of_Receiving_Gossip_About_OthersIf you feel like you struggle with mean world syndrome, here’s an article you might find interesting. Mean world syndrome is actually about consuming negative news, buuut I can’t see why a similar thing might kick in when you see a lot of negative / unkind / judgmental /black and white content or commentary too and it skews how you perceive the world: https://happiful.com/what-is-mean-world-syndromeSHOP ⇢☁️ The Calm Productivity Notion Pack ⇢ https://shop.muchelleb.com.au/products/the-calm-productivity-notion-pack☁️ Level up Your Life with The Life Map ⇢ https://shop.muchelleb.com.au/products/the-life-mapCONNECT WITH ME ⇢🧚 Instagram ⇢ http://instagram.com/muchelleb🧚 Website ⇢ http://muchelleb.com.au/🧚 The Grow With Intention Podcast ⇢ https://www.youtube.com/@growwithintention💫 A QUICK NOTE 💫 Please take what resonates with you from this video and leave what doesn’t. You know you best.

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