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[Garang @otambokenneth]

Oooops was captured on Saturday Nation Newspaper.

[Minds Mastery @MasteriMinds]

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[Garang @otambokenneth]

@Plugtv_kenya Majority of the estates within Nairobi, children playing grounds has been grabbed and Protecting public & private utility plots is exactly what Nairobi needs right now

[Garang @otambokenneth]

@SautiTVKE Majority of the Estates within Nairobi county don't have playing ground the spaces have been grabbed so to solve such we need visionary leaders like Captain Ronald Karauri who is ready to tackle the during to be the land grabbing issue once and for all

[christopher_Ai @SphereSuc32514]

15 Books you should Read.

[Garang @otambokenneth]

@Honeyfarsafi Quick recovery Jaber

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@brendankirotee Follow back

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@brendankirotee Wololo 😀😀😀🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

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@OkiyaOmtatah I remember during the time Uhuru Kenyatta @4thPresidentKE , the president dismissed reports from then Auditor general Ouko terming it as madness... This pattern seems to be repeating itself

[Rian Doris @RianSweetDoris]

Every possession you own captures a slice of your attention.

Spartans, Samurai, Stoics, Mongol warriors, and monastic scholars all practiced the same thing: they removed everything that distracted them from what mattered most.

You lose a shirt in a cluttered closet, scratch your watch on the way out, trip over unopened packages by the door, and spend your commute thinking about all of it instead of preparing for the day.

"Thinking about things" is the real cost of ownership.

Each object becomes a micro-task competing for cognitive bandwidth before you've even started your actual work.

Cognitive Load: The Science

Psychologist John Sweller's research on cognitive load explains why.

Your brain has finite working memory, like RAM in a computer.

Overload it, and everything slows: focus degrades, creativity stalls, decisions get worse.

The prefrontal cortex, your cognitive command center, has a hard capacity ceiling. Every irrelevant possession unnecessarily spikes that load.

Possessions Block Flow State

Flow, the optimal state of consciousness, requires all of your attention focused on the present moment.

Possessions work against this by fragmenting that attention.

A pair of pants might take 10 seconds of daily thought.

A Rolex could demand 10 minutes.

A house can absorb a full hour.

Across the average American household (roughly 300,000 items), the cumulative cognitive tax is enormous.

Your Default Mode Network, responsible for creative insight during idle moments, gets choked when it's processing possession-related noise instead of generating ideas.

How to Apply Minimalism for Flow

Step 1: Find Your Minimalist Sweet Spot

Tier 1 (Aggressive): Own only what advances your craft. Everything fits in a backpack.

Tier 2 (Tempered): Balance comfort and flow. Small, efficient home with multi-functional items.

Tier 3 (Mild): Each item chosen with intention. Winston Churchill operated here, surrounding himself with books, paintings, and artifacts that fueled his thinking.

Step 2: Run a Possession Purge

Block off a full day, gather everything you own into one room, and sort each item into keep or cut.

Aggressive filter: "Is this a tool that advances my craft?"

Less aggressive filter: "Is what I assume I'll get from this worth the cost of ownership?"

If it's not an obvious "yes," the number of considerations that flood your mind reveals the cognitive weight of that item.

Step 3: Maintain It

Performance maximalists: Remove something for everything you bring in.

Less extreme: Before any purchase, ask: "Is acquiring this worth the temporary neurochemical reward it brings?"

Backup: Run an annual purge to reset.

What Changes Now

Minimalism drives flow by reducing cognitive load.

Flow drives minimalism by making work intrinsically rewarding, so you want less stuff.

That loop compounds over time.

Minimalism in possessions leads to maximalism in performance.

More on this in the article below.

- Rian

[Garang @otambokenneth]

@edwinsifuna What happen to the 2/3 gender rule? Does it apply in this commission that protects the supreme office. Only 3 men out of 12...

Hii inakaa Kiosk ya akina Mama

[Garang @otambokenneth]

@DrRoselynAkombe @NationMediaGrp What happen to the 2/3 gender rule? Does it apply in this commission that protects the supreme office. Only 3 men out of 12...

Hii inakaa Kiosk ya akina Mama

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@KeruboAnyega315 What happen to the 2/3 gender rule? Does it apply in this commission that protects the supreme office. Only 3 men out of 12...

Hii inakaa Kiosk ya akina Mama

[Garang @otambokenneth]

What happen to the 2/3 gender rule? Does it apply in this commission that protects the supreme office. Only 3 men out of 12...

Hii inakaa Kiosk ya akina Mama

[Mind Matter @MindMatter28]

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