how to get smart again - postcards by elle

[part i of my how to get my life back together series — if you like this, consider upgrading your subscription because the other parts will be for paid subscribers! this post may also be paywalled in a bit.] In all honesty, my biggest concern and secret in the last two years that I’ve been out of school is that my brain has slowly been melting away. And by slowly melting away, I mean that I can physically feel my mind’s growing reluctance to concentrate, to truly think, and my attention span slipping out of reach. I sit at my job and create documents and spreadsheets that seem completely meaningless for eight hours a day. I get home and make myself dinner, stirring with one hand and scrolling on Twitter with the other. I turn on a rerun of a show that I can almost recite line by line (I am a chronic rewatcher). I’m currently reading a book together with my friend, and when he said “remember this part?” I did not. In other words, I feel like my life has become mindless and thus a bit me

[part i of my how to get my life back together series — if you like this, consider upgrading your subscription because the other parts will be for paid subscribers! this post may also be paywalled in a bit.] In all honesty, my biggest concern and secret in the last two years that I’ve been out of school is that my brain has slowly been melting away. And by slowly melting away, I mean that I can physically feel my mind’s growing reluctance to concentrate, to truly think, and my attention span slipping out of reach. I sit at my job and create documents and spreadsheets that seem completely meani