Six strange ways we’re corroding our mental performance

Alex Mathers
4 min readMay 16, 2024

Ever notice how distracted we’re becoming?

Yeah, I noticed this about me as well, until I started making some changes.

Read on to learn more about how I am making small changes that are improving my mental performance.

We all want to perform better.

We want to be effortlessly productive.

We want to create things that turn heads.

We want to be prolific and make good money from our creations.

This requires mental capacity.

But many of us are applying breaks.

We have habits that literally block us from enjoying full performance at work and in life.

This is no good.

We want to reverse this and be effective again.

Interestingly, most of our inefficiencies can be reversed by doing less — by taking off the breaks — rather than adding more to our lives.

Here are 6 ways we put the breaks on our mental magic:

1. Filling too much of the day with social media

Let’s face it. We’re too attached to the little dopamine hits we receive from replies and likes.

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