This Is How to Declutter Your Brain so You Can Achieve Higher-Level Thinking
By: Tim Denning
Tags: Psychology, Self Improvement, Inspiration, Learning, Work

This Is How to Declutter Your Brain so You Can Achieve Higher-Level Thinking

And produce results you didn’t think you were capable of.

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Your brain is like your home. If there’s garbage everywhere, you will feel stressed and function at a drastically lower level.

Higher-level thinking looks like this:

Your brain comes up with ideas. A few of them are good.

You can access effortless levels of creativity — helpful if you’re a writer, an entrepreneur, musician, comedian, or actor.

You don’t walk around with huge levels of brain fog that clouds your sense of judgment.

When your brain is cluttered, you blow up at every tiny thing. You need a clear mind to achieve extraordinary results.

First, let’s toss out the mess from your brain:

1. What you can’t control

There’s a lot in your life you can’t control. The fastest way to clutter your brain with B.S. is to think a lot about what you can’t control. A question to change your life:

“What are you going to do about it?”

This question acts as a pattern interrupt. You break up the story of that which you can’t control when you force yourself to take personal responsibility. What you can’t control directs you when you let it.

2. Junk food for your brain

Anger and frustration are junk food for your brain. They don’t get you anywhere. Turn anger and frustration into action. Don’t worry about revenge — focus on results. Results make anger look stupid, rather than you.

3. People-centric thinking

Thinking about people is low-level thinking. Your brain is smarter when you focus on ideas. Humans are a messed up species and critiquing them is hilarious when you think deeply about it.

You really want people to act the right way, be kind, respect your views, be generous towards you, believe the same as you, get on with everybody? Seriously, this is an immature view of the world. Don’t worry about judging people. This is brain clutter.

Change yourself to change the world.

4. Money driven obsessions

Money is an obsession. When you think money will solve all your problems you mess up your potential. Money solves nothing. America has lots of money. Do they have many problems these days?

The time you spend thinking about money can be better utilized.

5. Your grandmother’s inheritance

Yep, throw the old girl’s stuff away (joking). The junk you hoard takes up space in your physical world.

Try to think clearly while you’re standing in the middle of a rubbish dump that smells like a public toilet after a hundred beer guts have taken a half-time moment of liquid relief. You can’t. It’s hard to put your finger on it.

Inspirational thoughts that drive you towards action aren’t going to happen amongst a pile of junk. Your brain is too busy focusing on where all your physical possessions belong. Other people’s stuff is the hardest to throwaway.

There’s a broken sense of connection, or you feel like you owe it to them to hold onto it all. Meanwhile, upstairs in your brain, your thinking becomes cluttered the same way your physical world is.

Putting stuff away declutters your mind.