Popcorn Brain: Hampering your progress and lives

New Delhi: Popcorn Brain is witnessed everywhere today. From youngsters to old people, everyone is engaged scrolling the social media mindlessly. Therefore, multitasking while using social media is disorienting us.

To begin with, we extremely rely on technology nowadays. We are just one click away from any information. Moreover, we transport ourselves into the virtual reality. How everyone is defining success nowadays? Yes, you guessed it right,by getting ‘Blue Ticks’ on Instagram and the urge to increase more followers.

Know how Popcorn Brain is Impacting us:

1. It can decrease your attention span. 
2. Make you believe in the false things effortlessly.
3. You can showcase yourself as an expert on internet.
4. Everyone feels overwhelmed while using the ‘Emojis’.
5. The ‘Red Heart Emoji’ has more love than our real heart.

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Now let’s see some solutions to this problem:

1. Pomodoro Technique: The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method based on 25-minute stretches of focused work broken by five minute breaks. Longer breaks, typically 15 to 30 minutes, are taken after four consecutive work intervals. 

2. Prioritise your Tasks: Prioritise your most significant tasks first so that we can practice them first.

3. Practice Meditation: Practice meditation daily for atleast 15-30 minutes.

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4. Difficulty Concentrating: It becomes difficult for us to concentrate. Thus, we can replace the mobile alarm with the portable alarm clock.

5. Decrease Brightness: Decrease the brightness of the phone. Colours impact our psychology and keep us engrossed. So decrease the brightness and you will be surprised to see the results.

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