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CHARLESTON, SC
ESCAPE THE ORDINARY
Our brains can hold an amazing amount of information: Our landline phone number from high school, 21 different passwords, our best friends’ birthdays (even without Facebook
reminders),
social
security
numbers (yours, his, the kids’), license plate and driver’s license numbers, facts and figures and trivia that we may never need to recall. But we still can’t remember that one actress’s name who played that character in that movie without reaching for our phones. Technology frees up brain space, but it can also make our brains less willing to work for an answer.We download brain games to stay sharp, but spend more time searching iMDb or falling into a YouTube rabbit hole. Information overload be damned, we can’t free up space in our actual brains and it’s so easy to upgrade our smartphones. This month, we’re going for analog ability by reading more and watching less, boosting our IQ and EQ without an app, mind games in real life (we know you still have a Trivial Pursuit board game in the back of your closet), more reason and less reality TV, more observation and less consumption. It’s time for a reboot, a CTRL-ALT-DEL for our brains, a spring cleaning of useless information so we can focus on what we really love. You have a first class head full of gray matter just waiting for you to fill it with wisdom and words. Appreciate it while it’s at peak perfection and it’s likely to stay sharp as long as you’re breathing. Brainpower, ahoy!
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” A. A. Milne
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