Future Chi
Episode 37: Memory - Focus, Brain Fog, Clarity. and Clearing Your Mental Hard Drive

The Episode

Losing track of what you were doing, thinking, or talking about? Struggling hold your attention on one thing at a time? Productivity in the western world is declining at a rapid rate and brain fog, short attention spans and an inability to stay focused are the easily attributed causes. But what’s the underlying reason for this? Will this decline in mental performance create a knock on effect that will undermine our future?

Addressing the core of the problem is the only way forward. In this week’s episode Jost and Leon focus in on the root of short attention spans, what’s causing their rapid increase and what we can do about it. Jost talks about the nature of information overload that clogs up our mental hard drives, how the Liver regulates this, and how the Lungs can help us declutter and reboot our systems to ensure we aren’t holding onto unnecessary ‘files’. As it turns out Chinese medicine understood the concept of the computer thousands of years ago, and that ejecting old files - or old energy - was a daily necessity. Jost also talks about the blood, sweat and Chi that goes into creating something new, and how clarity and focus are required to lay the right groundwork and make things happen. Leon talks about how good art, good design, good photography, and good architecture transcend the technological tools of the time, how AI is only a small part of a big future picture we can’t yet see, what sustainable design really is, and the importance of focusing on the details. He also talks about the film Johnny Mnemonic and what happens when your mental hard drive can't handle the input.

Problems can’t exist without solutions, and we’re all born with the solution. Don’t wake up to external ideas, opinions and information (ie your phone). Wake up instead to breath work, exercise, and grounding. Clear out the old and start anew each day, and get busy doing what we’re here to do.