When your mind is wandering, walk with it

There’s only one well-constructed sentence needed to trigger a whole thought process. Sometimes even less.

We have this great capacity to embrace new information using all of the body’s sensors and rapidly start processing it without further added like nothing else would be more critical.

But the online environments have been built around our rich emotional budget, and often we find ourselves looking to replenish it by finding the most valuable piece of content that we can devour.

Sometimes it works.

Many great series, movies, and entertainment clips have figured out that people have a great desire to explore parts of their minds they have yet to get a glimpse of.

That’s why algorithms have always been developed around showing you the “next better thing” that you can consume and, hopefully, get some value from.

Our brains have this really cool capacity to look for evidence in order to confirm what is already in our minds.

Like when we were kids and we thought that a certain toy was really cool and we would simply take it and use it in more ways to play with it. The same goes for passions and desires, and natural attraction to certain topics, books, music, philosophies, etc…

And finding the sweet spot between self-discovery and learning often lies in our capacity to just be curious about things.

Once curiosity is triggered, questions arise.

Many WHYs and HOWs keep our attention in the same space where we can feel safe for not knowing enough. And for the most part, we never know enough. There is always “a better way”. But that’s irrelevant now.

Because developing an independent curiosity, rewarded with even more valuable information to absorb and process, not simple words and numbers, will benefit you in every aspect of your life.

And whether you get distracted by an ad and your mind starts wandering about how the underlying concept actually reflects the meaning of it, or thinking about the way you can build a…