How I Organized My Brain

Sometimes it seems like people think you just have thoughts and memories.
That’s not how it works. Smart people organize their brain on purpose.
You do that by making certain choices.

The simplest framework: energy

I’ve been using this for years, and it works best.
My goal:

  • Never get sick

  • No energy dips

  • Always feel fit

Energy is all you have.
You either spend it on something, or you don’t.

Example: food

When I eat something, it costs energy to digest it.
But in the next few hours, food also releases energy.

What kind of energy that is, and how I feel, depends on what I ate.

Example: news and social media

Everything you read, watch, and scroll through is information.
It costs energy to process that information.

Then you carry that information with you.
All the thoughts and memories you hold also cost energy.

So you pay twice:

  1. in processing

  2. in carrying it afterward

If you spend all day consuming news, the bill is huge.
The news is very negative, and it costs a disproportionate amount of energy to carry that around.
You want to be a little informed, but not too much.

Remember: you think you just “read the news” and now you're updated,
but that’s not what happens.
You also have to process it.
It becomes part of your identity.
You spend the whole day using energy to keep those memories alive.

If you spend all day on social media, it’s basically impossible to be happy.
It literally costs too much energy.

How to structure your brain

Let’s take a normal day:

  • You want at least three zero states.
    That means zero energy output:
    your body completely loose and relaxed, with the lowest possible physical tension.
    Notice: this isn’t about thinking.
    It’s simply letting your body go limp.

  • You want at least one moment of maximum tension per day — for example, through exercise.

  • Imagine you have one million thoughts a day.
    You want no more than 10% to be negative.
    That means you should rarely watch the news —
    or only a few minutes once a day.
    If you follow the news all day,
    half of your thoughts will be about war and genocide.
    It’s very hard to stay positive in that environment.

  • Fill the rest of the day with as many real experiences as possible.
    Be honest with people.
    Say: “These thoughts feel good, and these don’t.”
    Make sure there are positive experiences in the mix.

  • You also want a part of your thoughts to be extremely high-quality. Short thoughts and long thoughts both matter, but deep, fast, intuitive, complex thoughts come from creating long “musical” thoughts — the kind you get when you are fully concentrated. To reach that state, your whole body has to shift into a lower, heavier gear: slower breathing, relaxed muscles, steady focus, no distractions.