Yoyoyooooooo.

Today I thought about an analogy that could literally be a song by NF haha.

But basically everyone has an attic in their mind.

Where you put stuff that you think you don’t need anymore.

For example in business that would mean you have an unread email and you think about answering it but you don’t because its not the right time or whatever.

And so that unanswered email sits in the attic of your mind.

And what’s weird is that this attic makes a tension that you can’t really explain where it’s from.

For example for me I worked with a lawyer about 6 months ago.

His service was really good, all was great, and then he asked me for a review on some website.

Now… I haven’t written that review yet.

6 months later.

And sometimes when I lie in bed and try to sleep I think about how he asked me for a review but I always think “yeah I’ll do it later”.

And we all know what happens to something that we want to do later.

We never even do it once.

That’s probably the only thing I have in my attic atm.

But right now it’s not the right time to write that review either because I am writing this email haha.

So yeah.

However that attic gets heavier and heavier the more stuff you put in there.

And then you have so much in there that you are constantly tired, you slur your speech, you lose your temper more frequently and you can’t really explain where it’s from.

But it’s actually from all the unresolved little problems that you think are not worth solving because they are so small but your brain remembers them.

Even if you write them down, your brain constantly has this tension that you still need to do something.

At least for me that’s how it is.

Writing stuff down doesn’t get it out of my brain.

And yeah, the attic starts to feel heavy.

And then you start to feel overwhelmed.

But that’s not because you have too much stuff to do and you have too much stress,

it’s actually that you have so many little things that you put off that you start to feel this weight where you don’t know where it’s from.

Bro I think I might just have found the root cause of depression.

And as with depression, the only way to clear the attic is to go up there and actually open the boxes, look inside, and sort them out.

So for me that would be to open the box (email) where the lawyer sent me a link to his review page, empty that box (write the review), and then the attic is cleared again.

And you just need to do that with as many boxes that you have in your attic.

Then all of a sudden you don’t have this weight anymore that has been weighing you down until now.

Anyway, this email is starting to get a bit long.

But this was soooo fun to write about, especially since I am really into psychology and behavior patterns and stuff.

I think I will write more about psychology stuff in the future (maybe even tomorrow).

But yeah.

I never did this before, but an “assignment” I want you to do today or tomorrow is to go up to the attic and take one box (unfinished task that you put off) and open the box and do the task.

Your brain will feel lighter.

Believe me.

I’ll do the same with the review for the lawyer right now.

Btw if you like these psychology emails, reply to this email and let me know so that I know whether I should lean into this or not haha.

Would love to hear what you think.

Talk to you tomorrow.