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“Your brain makes thoughts like your GI system makes gas.” I tell my students this all the time

20 Feb 2026 · 0 min

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Your brain produces thoughts constantly, like your gut produces gas. Writing them down lets you sort through the mental chatter and figure out what actually matters instead of being trapped in your own head.

I tell my students all the time, our brain makes thoughts like our GI system makes gas. So it's just like, just all the time spewing out thoughts and you can kind of pick them out and sort them through, which I see that you can do better when you're writing it down. Yeah, for sure. Mind reading, or I'd never want mind reading. I don't wanna know anyone's unfiltered thoughts, but it does help writing them down and processing them that way.