You Need Idle Time @melrobbins

human beings used to have a lot of idle

time in our brains so if you look at

like for the majority of evolution we

did rot tasks we do things like turn

butter or like make rope and if you

think about that like the mind is

relatively free I go hunting with a

buddy of mine I miss my arrow he hits

his Arrow I feel inferior we walk 2

hours back to Camp over the course of

that walking my brain has time to

process now what's happened is if you

look at what goes on with our attention

we have zero idle time in the brain and

the problem is that chances are our

brain has evolved to use that idle time

even like with dreams that the emotional

content of Dreams has to do with the

emotional content of your life and as we

interfere with dreaming as we have you

know these different medications that

will affect our sleep stages the

restfulness that we get changes so our

brain is actually even when you're not

thinking about something your brain is

doing a ton of work but now what we've

stopped doing is giving our our brains

time to process information process

emotions because we're constantly

externalizing our attention