Jim Kwik says your brain is highly suggestible when you wake up, so avoid phone notifications and news. Use those early hours for output instead: write, create, generate ideas. Start your day making something, not reacting to what others sent you.
The morning time, my brain is not looking for input. I'm not picking up my phone. I'm not turning on the news. When you wake up, you're in this kind of relaxed state of awareness. You're very suggestible. So I don't want to put information in at that point. I want output first thing in the morning. I don't want to be reactive and having to react to all the messages in my texts or my email or my Slack. Don't want to start my day on the defense. I want to start it proactively by creating. I will go and write my next book. Now, does that mean I'm not doing other things? No. For certain things I have to do, I'll do it. But for the most part, that morning time is for my brain to get information out, to be creative.
The Library of Minds: Brain Coach: How to Stay Sharp When AI Does the Thinking | Jim Kwik
