Doomscrolling? Nah, try brain stacking

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Hannah Busby was beginning to feel like her day job as a creative content strategist was draining her energy — and when she came home, ...

Hannah Busby was beginning to feel like her day job as a creative content strategist was draining her energy — and when she came home, feeling burned out, she spent evenings locked in an endless doomscroll, which certainly did not help.

Then, she tried something less intimidating than, say, an hours-long craft project or an expensive class: One hour, each day, with a sequence of timed activities. She and others call it brain stacking — which meshes together several ideas about habit formation. For her, it looked like one page’s worth of journaling, 15 minutes of Sudoku and 30 minutes of reading.

She is part of an online trend, ironically, to get offline and do enriching, low-effort activities.

“Everything that I do within my brain stack is designed to reclaim some of the parts of my brain that I effectively lost to burnout, overwork and stress,” said Busby, 34, who lives in London.

Nine months of brain stacking later, Busby feels more in control of her time than ever, and her evenings leave her feeling much more clearheaded and refreshed. She has grown an audience on social media by sharing time-lapse videos of her brain stacking activities, with many of her viewers putting their own spin on it with activities that suit their personal interests.

Sophia Szu, 30, who lives in New York, slipped into a bout of brain rot after graduating from business school in August. During the months-long job search that followed, she fell into a habit of spending hours in bed glued to her phone.

“After a long time scrolling on social media and seeing other people’s thoughts, I felt that I had lost my inner voice, and my life was missing structure,” she said. “The thought of a morning routine where I drag myself out of bed to go on a 5-mile walk or something was kind of daunting. So I thought about the things that I actually like to do.” Now Szu does a 40-minute brain stacking session each morning: journaling, drawing in a sketchbook, a brief meditation and reading a book.

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