Curated and distributed in Writing | Psychology
How to Write 10x Engaging Stuff Within 24 Hours With a Simple Habit Change
Your writing spirit will come alive to write winning stories
When we don’t have sex for a long time, anything remotely sexy feels exciting. When we are hungry, every food looks tasty.
When you are multitasking, you are dividing your attention between two or more interests, but you cannot choose one. Fascinating videos and stories confuse you about what makes you feel super excited. You can jump to more exciting stuff in an instant, thanks to the AI-powered auto-suggestions tailored to keep you glued to social media.
If you are not a writer on a mission, it is okay to indulge your visual appetite with entertaining videos. But if you have to create engaging content yourself, you have to quit your pastime and get bored. You have to feel this boredom until you start enjoying your own stream of consciousness and flights of imagination.
When somebody else is making sense of life for you — in a video or an article — your systems start following what the person in the video is saying, and you start shutting down some of your mental processes. Most writers and speakers, including me, are committing this…
