Digital Detox: How Screen Time Kills Your Attention Span
Brain Series Current: Digital Detox Morning Routines All Posts Meditation for Skeptics The average person checks their phone 96 times per day-once every 10 minutes while awake. ...
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The 20-20-20 Rule: Protecting Your Eyes and Brain from Screens
Brain Series Current: The 20-20-20 Rule Blue Light and Melatonin All Posts Morning Routines You’re staring at a screen. Your eyes burn. Your head aches. You can’t focus anymore. You’ve been working for 4 hours straight without looking away. ...
The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Unfinished Tasks Haunt Us
It’s 2 AM. I should be sleeping. Instead, I’m lying in bed thinking about that bug I almost fixed. I know exactly where the problem is. I know how to solve it. I just ran out of time. My brain won’t let it go. Or that blog post I started writing three days ago. I have the outline. I wrote the intro. But I haven’t finished it, and it’s nagging at me every time I sit down to work. ...
Flow State: The Science of Peak Performance
It’s 2 AM. You’ve been coding for six hours straight. You haven’t eaten. You forgot to check your phone. You have no idea where the time went. But you just built the most elegant solution you’ve ever created. The code is clean, the logic is tight, and everything just… works. You snap out of it and realize: you were completely immersed. Time disappeared. Effort felt effortless. You were operating at a level you rarely achieve. ...