Brain rot: The Destructive Consumption of Trivial Contents

Brain rot which has been attributed to cognitive decline due to long exposure of trivial contents which contribute less or nothing to one’s mental alertness and reasoning surrounding his ability to provide solutions to pressing issues, trivial contents like endless scrolling on social media, fruitless contents, videos low on intelligence and other contents that have nothing to do with intellectual exercise. At a point that one began to feed on those contents, which limits the ability to entertain intelligent information that will help to solve every day problems. There will be no room to think outside the box, critical reasoning and contribute to intelligent conversations, that’s when brain rot creeps in.

When there is a viral memes, videos and pictures people are thrilled to join that wagon and share across their social media handles just to feel the satisfaction that they are aware of the latest trends, they overly concentrate on that to seek that validation, and losing the ability to handle important issues in their lives. They become mentally focus on every little trends that emanates from social media, comments horribly on someone’s social media post just to feel the need to be social aware of what’s going on the internet, the fixation is the highest form of brain rot any individual can suffer, this is because its totally disconnect you from ability to think, and give you limited vision on important goals in your life.

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Man sharpens man as iron sharpens iron, when you’re ignorance of the destructive contents that play actually no role in your life, you’re indirectly inviting cognitive decline, it is more common with young people that join every trivial challenges on social media, that they hugely commit to the trends of these challenges, as opposed to their main targets in life, which is self-destructive. People commit less into improving their ability to be problem solvers in real life, and has successfully failed in separating social media life from real life, that they almost live on social media. Setting goals and engaging in productive activities are huge boost for cognitive exercise, expand ability to offer critical reasoning.

Brain rot has negative effects on your social and emotional wellbeing, it is relatable when people struggle to stay up and do their academic activities  but will spend hours watching movies, scrolling on social media and feeding on trivial contents without getting bored, it directly attacks your mental alertness to everything around you. It is not permanently fatal, if you’re willing to commit and reverse the cognitive decline through reduction on amount you spend on social media and try to prioritize different goals in your life, engaging in intellectual exercises like reading, doing multi-tasking jobs, be self aware and conscious of the type of contents you seek, and reach out to intelligent contents that help you grow personally and career wise.