Our mind is a reason-giving machine

• Document the great things people say about you to read later.
• Finish something that’s been on your to-do list for ages.
• Change the way you make decisions.
• Mix up your routine in small ways to create new neural pathways in the brain and keep it healthy.
• P...

This idea may sound a bit weird and even sad, but it has a real potential of comforting and sustaining us when we are in distress. 

We usually are very negligent when it comes to curating our own memories: we push the important events at the back of our minds. But i

Doom scrolling is similar to gambling behaviour, as we scroll to find anything uplifting too, hooked on the expectation of seeing something good.

Just like a gambler keeps pulling the lever of a slot machine, we keep thumbing upwards to scroll through the newsfeeds.