Alex Northstar
@NorthstarBrain • 19,185 subscribers
AI productivity | 11,000+ people trained globally, 50+ SMBs & Fortune 500 in last 3 years | AI audit: https://t.co/7pu9pZRYC7
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Sunday. I did a brain reset, 7 hours of silence. What it did to my brain: No phone. No music. No books. No screens. Just water and silence. This was week 8 of my 53 Skills project. The first few hours were easy. Then around hour 3, my brain switched from boredom to processing mode. Old emotions, unresolved thoughts, things I’d been outrunning for years. All surfacing on their own. By the end, my mind felt completely clear. Not tired. Not numb. Actually calm. It lasted for hours after. Why this matters: I think we never give our brains offline time anymore. Every quiet moment gets filled with a podcast, a scroll, a notification. Your brain is running on 100% input and 0% processing all day. Neuroscience backs this up. Unstructured mental downtime improves memory consolidation, creative problem-solving, and emotional regulation. It’s the same mechanism as sleep, except we can access it while awake. We just choose not to. You don’t need 7 hours. One hour of zero input per week would put you ahead of most people in terms of mental clarity. Try it: one hour, no phone in the room, no background noise. First 20 minutes will be uncomfortable. Last 10 will surprise you.
Alex Northstar565,987 views • 8 months ago
holy s*it, it's happening! AI is doing your job! The latest Gemini with Deep Research just checked 79 sites for me, and gave me the report I asked. What would take a human 2-3h was done in 3 min!! uhm 2025 is the last year. AI agents are coming, this is proof. --- The report was not perfect (too boring for me) but it cited the resources and it was accurate. I saw for some people it would scan 300+ websites. It adds the final result in a Doc file, it looks like a proper research paper. Perplexity is cooked. But also many humans are cooked. Imagine not using this tech next year.
Alex Northstar545,490 views • 1 year ago
I did a 7 hour brain reset No phone, no laptop, no books, NOTHING, just silence in a room. Here’s why and what happened: 1. no one can do this anymore. Our dopamine is fried and you know it. 2. It is extremely important to have brain clarity in these crazy AI times so I needed a brain reset. 3. I documented it so my friends can see that I’m not bullshiting them. 4. It was HARD. After the first hours your mind starts processing unconscious suppressed feelings. I missed my family, I was angry from stuff from 10 years ago, I unlocked lost memories. 5. It was extremely beneficial, felt like a new man at 2 PM, I started at 7 AM. 6. I did NOT go in the nature because the point is to have 0 sensory stimulation. The point was to be alone with my thoughts, not to enjoy nature. 7. This is the solution to reset many modern mind diseases and anxiety. 8. I challenge Bryan Johnson to do this. 9. I challenge you to do this. Do even 1 hour. It will make your life better. You will remember what it feels to be human again. I promise. Let me know your questions.
Alex Northstar94,010 views • 7 months ago
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Alex Northstar41,143 views • 3 years ago
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