How to declutter your brain
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How to declutter your brain
Because you need your brain for more important things than storing clutter.
Like your desk, clutter accumulates in your brain.
Like your desk you periodically need to declutter.
Most brain clutter belong in one of two places:
A to do list.
A reference file.
In either case in order to get the clutter out of your head, you need to write.
In conclusion:
Turn your brain clutter into physical or digital clutter.
Sort it in to a to do list and a reference file
What ever you do don’t keep it in your brain. Keeping clutter in your brain will bog you down stop you from being productive or creative.
How to declutter your brain
Yes! I participated in the original course before it became a book. I use a Zettlekasten system on obsidian, I take notes on scraps of paper and every so often collect them into obsidian