every time you replace “this is hard” with “what’s the first step?” you shift brain activity from your amygdala (fear) to your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving).
that’s neuroplasticity in real time.
Kalau dari penelitian, salah satu cara untuk memperbaiki fungsi kognitif yang terganggu pada brain fog adalah dengan olahraga, terutama olahraga yang aerobik, seperti lari, sepeda, atau berenang.
Mekanismenya adalah olahraga dapat membantu mengoptimalkan (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) BDNF, yang bermanfaat untuk fungsi kognitif.
Sumber:
Experimental and clinical evidence of physical exercise on BDNF and cognitive function: A comprehensive review from molecular basis to therapy.
You’re bored because you’re not doing side quests, man.
Life is more than just working and then throwing yourself into bed doing nothing.
Here are 50 side quests to complete:
lately i've realised, the key to doing everything in life is just aim to do something few days a week
current split:
eat healthy 5-6x, workout 4-5x, focused work 4-5x, read before bed 3x, call parents 2-3x, call friends 1-2x, the list goes on
and then rest of the days i'm allowed to do whatever i want, it's a trick & somehow i end up sticking to routine way more this way
Your brain doesn't age because of time. It ages because of repetition. The more predictable your days become, the faster your neurons quiet down. Your brain builds neural pathways based on experience. New experiences create new connections. Repetition strengthens old ones. But when you repeat the same patterns for years, your brain stops building. That's why time feels faster as you age. Your brain stops encoding new memories. It just references old ones. A year at 40 feels shorter than a year at 10, because at 10, everything was new. At 40, everything is familiar. But neuroplasticity doesn't stop. You can still grow new neurons. You can still learn. You can still change. You just have to break the loop. Your brain will wake up. And time will slow down again.
the closer someone is to you, the more you treat them as you treat yourself. it's as though they eventually enter the sphere of your inner world.
you have to stop being cruel to yourself or you will be cruel to others, in time.
Lately, I've been including this in my prayer: "If I'm not meant to have it, Lord, please remove the desire from my heart to want it, and help me find peace in its absence."
riset ini tuh bener-bener definisi "overthinking is a killing silent".
intinya, hasil penelitian nemuin kalau hampir 50% waktu kita itu dipake buat ngelamun atau mikirin hal lain di luar apa yang lagi dikerjain,
dan plot twist-nya, mau lagi ngayal yang indah-indah sekalipun, ternyata tingkat bahagia kita tetep lebih rendah dibanding kalau lagi bener-bener fokus sama apa yang di depan mata.
jleb banget, . .
a wandering mind is an unhappy mind, alias kalau pikiran hobi "jalan-jalan" kemana-mana, ya siap-siap aja makin ngerasa nggak happy,..
karena rupanya otak kita tuh didesain buat present/ fokus hari ini, tapi kita malah hobi nyiksa diri dg bikin skenario fiktif di kepala 😅
Had a wealthy friend tell me "Your goal in life should be to reduce the amount of time it takes you to get out of a bad state."
The bad states you go through are normal. What matters is being able to consciously catch yourself before you react to them.
When something bad happens, you're going to feel it. The difference is whether you let it control you for hours, days, or weeks, or if you can process it, acknowledge it, and move forward in minutes.
Becoming less reactive doesn't mean nothing bothers you. It means you've trained yourself to recognize when you're in a bad state and pull yourself out of it faster. That's the real growth. Not eliminating the bad moments, but shrinking the time they have power over you.
I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.
The most dangerous addiction today isn't a substance.
Research on 100,000 people confirms that heavy short-form video use is just voluntary cognitive decline. We are actively training our brains to fail at hard tasks.
If you can simply sit with a problem for 10 minutes without swiping, you have a massive competitive advantage.
Basically, boredom is the new IQ.
Take your power back. Release that energy that keeps you connected to it. You’ve given it way too much of your mental and emotional energy. Now is the time to let go. You don’t need to be drained anymore. Free yourself from it.