SCROLLING RUINED MY ABILITY TO THINK. the neuroscience of brainrot & how to fix it

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  @olgaloiek · 2 months ago · pinned

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  @life.enjoyer17 · 1 month ago

  We go through so much information without taking the time to truly internalize any of it. <br><br>This causes us to think we know things but we are scarcely familiar with the subject instead of understanding it thoroughly. <br><br>The infinite, frictionless access to information from the internet invited this type of surface level learning, not giving us time to stop and connect the dots. <br><br>To combat this, we need to take our time with new literature; pause and think about difficult ideas, write notes, and form/generate our own ideas about topics.<br><br>We need to flood our brain with less information and engage our default mode networks by taking time to passively think and let our mind wander with no distractions to let our brains connect the dots in a cohesive way.

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  @JwelJude-cod141 · 2 months ago

  1. The smoothness we experience when we hear familiar words is fluency illusion or surface level thinking.<br>2. Because we are consuming content that are to made understand easily, our brain uses less of the deep thinking circuit.<br>3. In order to fix it , first , seek friction : take time to understand it deeply rather than skimming it . <br>4. Also produce more than you consume .<br>5. When produce , your brain will deep think about it and understand it better.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbM3dGrVPXo&amp;t=696">11:36</a>

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  @husainhaveliwala4456 · 2 months ago

  Brain rot is not just the brain fog we get after doomscrolling, it’s also the inability to access the loads of information we just consumed. There are two types of thinking, passive and deep. In order to get the brain into deep thinking mode to make sure we’re learning, there are three tactics. The first is to create friction so that the brain is forced to put in effort. The second is to produce like I’m doing now. The third is to give your brain space to consolidate. <br><br><br>This video was so helpful, thank you so much!

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  @Nigel-i7n · 2 months ago

  5 sentences, huh? &nbsp;I learned that the different parts of brains need exercise to keep them strong. &nbsp;Neural pathways at different levels, conscious and subconscious, are vital for ongoing full mental capacity. &nbsp;Shaolin monk meditation is not a waste of time, just as Japanese attention to gaps between objects is good for overall brain health. &nbsp;Higher levels of education focus on deep thinking to produce brains that can think for themselves and innovate. &nbsp;Finally, I learned that your lessons here are invaluable and I must stay subscribed!

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  @ryanmorganwrite · 2 months ago

  1. Finding the easiest path of getting information leads to fast consumption with shallow depth. <br>2. Understanding without thought is illusory and shallow.<br>3. Challenging the brain leads to depth. (Thinking of the satisfaction of working out vs the satisfaction of sitting on the couch).<br>4. The current media system lives off of making things easy enough to require no felt work in order to make it feel easy to not click elsewhere. It&apos;s basically serving us bonbons on the couch with ever increasing pedantry of luxury.<br>5. Integration requires time away from input/stimulation.

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  @bayleaftrix · 2 months ago

  Go, stare out the window doing nothing. Got it. Been already doing that, so I&apos;m doing very well! 😎<br><br>Joke aside, this is an extremely valuable video, and it explains social media in its entirety pretty well. Millions (if not billions) of idiots arguing about stuff they&apos;re too stupid to understand. And the scary thing is, they firmly believe in everything they say, and this is why the world is where it is today. I&apos;ll do my part, and dedicate more time for myself to engage in some challenging programming tasks just for the sake of learning more about what I think I know. Maybe it&apos;ll even help me reduce the effect of burnout I&apos;ve been experiencing, who knows.

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• RO

  @rotarydragon13b · 2 months ago

  Teaching someone something you&apos;ve learned is a great way of reinforcing and making the material expand and stick.

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  @tranquilogan · 2 months ago

  In this video, you discussed the concepts of deep versus shallow processing, brainrot, and the default mode network. Basically, our brains can process information on the surface level, for example, grass is green, or dive deeper into why the grass is green, which could be something like the molecules that make up the chloroplasts reflect wavelengths that we perceive as green. Both are essential for survival, but nowadays we tend to bias shallow processing due to the increase in short-form, easily-digestible, frictionless content online. Like an unused muscle, over time it causes our brains to be less able to handle deep processing. Luckily, neuroplasticity can work both ways, but it will take time and effort to retrain our brains to be comfortable with deep thinking. It also helps to give our brains space to consolidate information, and we can do that by temporarily halting the stream of input they receive nearly every minute of the day. When you&apos;re not doing anything particularly engaging, your brain enters what&apos;s known as the default mode network, a state of processing where it can synthesize and interpret information that it has received previously. If you constantly receive input, it never gets the chance to do this and instead you remain constantly wired. Another strategy is to produce more and consume less. It&apos;s said that you only truly understand a subject when you can explain it to someone else.<br><br>I&apos;d like to add my own input as well. All of these brain problems seem to stem from a lack of balance. Consumption vs production, shallow vs deep, wired vs relaxed. Problems arise when we lean to far into one extreme. It&apos;s like exercising constantly with no rest, which is just as bad as not exercising at all. I think it would do us all better to think critically and have the self awareness to identify imbalances in our lives and to employ strategies to remedy them. One of my hobbies is language learning, and I&apos;ve been learning a little Russian for a few months. There is so much friction for me in that pursuit which has worked for me and against me. The challenge of the characters and sounds has both motivated me to learn, as it&apos;s exciting to gain ground in a completely different language, but also there are times where the idea of Russian just shuts my brain off completely and I do an activity that&apos;s more shallow. I know I&apos;ve been spending too much time on IG to avoid language learning so this video came at a good time. I will try to have some quiet, non-input time before bed tonight.

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  @happy.kaushi · 1 month ago

  girl you are SO smart. like how?? wow that’s super attractive. i love being a nerd and i love nerds. you would be someone i’d love to be friends with and have deep conversations with. plus you are so pretty. your brains make you priceless. good luck Olga. i’ll always support your channel🌷

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  @theother2166 · 1 month ago

  1. Surface level content makes us believe we fully understand a concept just because we recognise the words and ideas in it.<br>2. We can realise this if we try to explain what we think we understood to someone who knows nothing on the topic.<br>3. Deep procesing puts our brains to work and leads us towards a more complete comprehension of something. It&apos;s the way to transition from just being familiarized with the theme to gaining more knowledge and being able to produce our own ideas.<br>4. In order to excercise deep processing we have to: 1) seek friction: trying to break the surface and asking questions, looking for more information, etc; 2) produce new ideas instead of just receiving information; 3) give ourselves time to process new information, letting our brains enter in the &quot;default mode network&quot; helps assimilate and consolidate that new knowledge.<br>5. More content in less time doesn&apos;t mean a better understanding of the world.<br><br>Not necessarily the best summary, but it was a good exercise

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  @WildfireSpirit_211 · 2 months ago

  The practical points shared here are what make the video genuinely valuable

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