I Let the Internet Give Me Brain Rot — Here’s How I Cured It

The internet hijacked my mind, so I had to steal it back.

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It started with a realization — I had fried my brain. Years of digital overconsumption had turned me into a passive spectator in my own life. Rather than think more, I spent more time scrolling than thinking, consuming than creating.

The sensation of deep focus, getting lost in thought without worry about distraction, had simply become a distant memory. Several months of research and self-experimentation later, I emerged sharper, more focused, and free from the grips of modern distractions.

This is my story, and if you’re drowning in digital noise, this may just become yours as well.

You Let the Internet Eat Your Brain — Here’s How That Happened

We are immersed in an ocean of social media corporations that have no other goal than making money, and their exploitation of our cognitive faculties negatively shaped my life. I am not an exception. My habits were nothing else but a reflex of a society molded on keeping me perpetually distracted. I would scroll endlessly, apply bookmarks hundreds of times, and jump from one distraction to the other with new dopamine hits, creating an illusion of novelty in my…