mental floss
Thought-clearing exercise
Mental floss is a light mental activity that clears away mental debris—trivial entertainment, puzzles, or distractions that refresh the mind without demanding much.
Like dental floss removes what's stuck between teeth, mental floss dislodges whatever's cluttering your thoughts: I do crosswords as mental floss before bed.
The term also refers to the humor and trivia website.
- puzzlesProblems designed to challenge
- triviaUnimportant miscellaneous facts
- journalingRegular personal writing practice
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
- self-careMaintaining personal wellbeing
reading · documentaries · breathing exercises · decluttering · meditation · fun facts · rabbit hole · deep dive · thought experiment · brainstorming · brain dump · creative writing · philosophical discussions · visualization · relaxation techniques · affirmations · curiosity · shower thoughts
mental flossacademic scholarship
Educational funding for achievement
heavy reading · intellectual labor · close reading · doctoral thesis · hard science
mental flossexistential dread
Terror at meaningless being
doom scrolling · trauma processing · moral reckoning · soul-searching · hard news
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