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Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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Re: Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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From the same folks: "So you're an Engineer and you think you're burned out?" https://techteam.thriveglobal.com/so-youre-an-engineer-and-y... [am the author]

At the end...“This article was written entirely by GPT-3”...are you also GPT-3?

The article is written by GPT3? I didn't see that. But that thought came to my mind.

Re: Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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Mental fog, for me, is a physical symptom of stress and exhaustion. It has nothing to do with having a clean workspace. This article reads like self-help fluff. The solutions I've found are get to enough sleep, try not to fill my day with mentally taxing work or meeting and, in a pinch, drink coffee or take paracetamol.

Mental fog, for me, is a physical symptom of stress and exhaustion. It has nothing to do with having a clean workspace. The first sentence of the article is "mess creates stress". I don't see a contradiction. It could be that article is wrong, but I have heard many people express that sentiment. If you have evidence that it's not true, I would like to see it.

I think you‘ll find a hundred other things more stressful than a messy environment. Fighting with the partner, illness of a relative, someone yelled at me on the street, I slept too little,...

Re: Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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The ultimate "tool" for elevated focus for me is napping. A quick 20 min nap completely resets my mind so I don't have whatever random thoughts floating around. If you are more disciplined than me, meditation in place of napping could work. But napping is easier and more enjoyable to me. As for brain fog itself, I think proper nutrition is very important. Our body needs many different micronutrients to operate at opt…

Same here. Just falling asleep even for 1 minute wipes the windshield clean.

Re: Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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Mental fog, for me, is a physical symptom of stress and exhaustion. It has nothing to do with having a clean workspace. This article reads like self-help fluff. The solutions I've found are get to enough sleep, try not to fill my day with mentally taxing work or meeting and, in a pinch, drink coffee or take paracetamol.

Why the paracetamol?

Re: Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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Thrive Global is Ariana Huffington's vehicle to repackage the last several years of self-care fads and sell them to corporations under the guise of improving employee productivity. It doesn't have anything of value to add to the conversation, as this article makes clear.

Re: Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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Mental fog, for me, is a physical symptom of stress and exhaustion. It has nothing to do with having a clean workspace. This article reads like self-help fluff. The solutions I've found are get to enough sleep, try not to fill my day with mentally taxing work or meeting and, in a pinch, drink coffee or take paracetamol.

Why the paracetamol?

It could be due to inflammation

Re: Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

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If you have persistent brain fog go get your full bloodwork done and check your hormone levels. If anything is off, discuss it with your doctor and get it to an appropriate level.

For me, it was gluten. Switched to a gluten-free diet and the mental dog went away
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