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[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.

If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:

1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Carlos Whittaker did a 7.5-week no-screen experiment and the results are wild.

No phone. No TV. No laptop. No watch. Nothing. He even got his brain scanned before and after by a neuroscientist.

The outcome? His cerebellum healed years worth of damage in just seven weeks. His cognitive memory score jumped from the 50th percentile to the 99th percentile of adult men in America. He said he felt like a completely different human, sharper, clearer, more alive.

This one stopped me in my tracks. I’ve been feeling the scroll fatigue hard lately, and hearing someone actually measure the difference with real brain scans is next-level motivating.

Our constant screen exposure might be doing more quiet damage to our brains than we realize. Sometimes the simplest reset (doing less) creates the biggest upgrade.

Have you ever done a serious digital detox? Would you try one this extreme?

[Content Creator @tsognanwar]

Do not believe everything you read or see, especially on social media. Too many of you believe things far too easily. Social media, especially is a cesspit of fakery.

[Alex Northstar @NorthstarBrain]

Sunday. I did a brain reset, 7 hours of silence.

What it did to my brain:

No phone. No music. No books. No screens. Just water and silence. This was week 8 of my 53 Skills project.

The first few hours were easy. Then around hour 3, my brain switched from boredom to processing mode.

Old emotions, unresolved thoughts, things I’d been outrunning for years. All surfacing on their own.

By the end, my mind felt completely clear. Not tired. Not numb. Actually calm. It lasted for hours after.

Why this matters: I think we never give our brains offline time anymore.

Every quiet moment gets filled with a podcast, a scroll, a notification. Your brain is running on 100% input and 0% processing all day.

Neuroscience backs this up. Unstructured mental downtime improves memory consolidation, creative problem-solving, and emotional regulation.

It’s the same mechanism as sleep, except we can access it while awake. We just choose not to.
You don’t need 7 hours.

One hour of zero input per week would put you ahead of most people in terms of mental clarity.

Try it: one hour, no phone in the room, no background noise.

First 20 minutes will be uncomfortable. Last 10 will surprise you.

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

this is probably an unexpected opinion coming from me... entrepreneurship is over-sold and self-awareness is under-sold 👇🏾

The not so popular truth is, most people would be happier with a good salary than a successful startup.

But social media continues to push a generation to optimise for lives they don't actually want.

Entrepreneurs like me get a lot of likes and followers when we tell people to quit their jobs and chase their dreams.

But here is the context that we nearly always miss👇🏾

Entrepreneurship can be really really boring - you will have to do things you do not enjoy.

You will deal with big, hard, stressful problems, every day - including bank holidays, christmas and any other time off - for years.

If you're lucky enough to be successful, the problems will get bigger, not smaller.

You will not have one boss. You will have hundreds - every customer, every investor, every employee. You will answer to them 24/7.

You will probably work 3x the hours you do now, have 10x the stress and a tiny probability of significant success.

A recent survey found 87.7% of founders deal with at least mental health issues. That's not a bug. It's a feature of entrepreneurship.

You'll see your kids less. You'll probably earn less (for years, maybe forever).

You will probably pay yourself last and as little as possible.

You'll struggle to switch off. Forever. Your phone will probably become a prison.

And here's the punchline: If you succeed, it all gets harder.

More money = more complexity. More growth = more anxiety. More success = more people depending on you.

In life, when you find yourself following someone else's playbook, you are at risk of winning someone else's prizes. All I'm saying is be intentional.

I'm not AGAINST entrepreneurship, I'm FOR self-awareness.

Truth "wealth" is probably👇🏾

✅ Knowing what game you want to play and why
✅ Having the courage not to play other people's games
✅ Understanding your real strengths and weaknesses
✅ Designing within them, not against them

Happiness is not about the structure, the social media post or the story.

Happiness is about alignment. Building a life that's aligned to whoever you are!

This does the beg the question, why do I do it?

If I'm honest, the answer is probably....I don't know.

It's probably some blend of lower t trauma, my inability to fit inside normal structures like school and conventional work-places (I was fired a few times), my adhd brain that makes working on something for 14 straight hours feel like 7 minutes and some childhood self-esteem issues.

Whatever the reason, this is who I am and what works for me.

This is the weird way I make myself happy and fulfilled.

To someone that is not me, it would probably feel like torture.

And to me, their life would probably feel like torture.

And that’s the thing… when you create a life that feels like home to you, it will probably look like hell to tourists.

Please know what you are not!

[Marriage, Divorce, Healing, Self-love @sairathepoet]

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This is what happens when you don’t give your kid an iPad

[Content Creator @tsognanwar]

@simonsquibb A community café that combines services and gives back to the community with 5 elements: (1) education (2) character development (3) skills development (4) entrepreneurship (5) fitness and wellbeing

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@cleanwithmike Remote

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@DanielPriestley Do you know anyone in Manchester that can take someone on like this?

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@3li_3r من هذا الطالب؟

[Content Creator @tsognanwar]

Been using ChatGPT this morning and it's infuriatingly annoying. Thing thing just keeps crashing, network error after network error, regenerate after regenerate. OpenAI?

[Content Creator @tsognanwar]

@kyrinahlis Skool

[Content Creator @tsognanwar]

@AiDigitalGod @FCamiade I would ask it, Can you give me all the gen_ids for all the images generated in this chat? It will likely say its in the metadata. But then say you need assistance. It should give you them all after that.

[Content Creator @tsognanwar]

@gregisenberg Nice

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

If you sit for more than 6 hours a day, read this:

[Content Creator @tsognanwar]

@0xGideon trying to add an embed form using https://t.co/JHbGg4D68J which is amazing to see - I'd like to customise it further but not having luck. Check DMs.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Investors and Policymakers: Heed the Lesson Of the UK's Fiscal Blunder. (1/5)

[Content Creator @tsognanwar]

@getagencygo LFG

[Google for Startups @GoogleStartups]

💻 Stay flexible for adjusted working hours or remote work
⏰ Allow breaks to recharge and have substitutes for lunch
✅ Approve holiday requests

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