Don't rot your brain
Financial Express Chennai|December 22, 2024
Oxford's Word of the Year 2024 is 'brain rot', the 'supposed deterioration of a person's mental state'. Know how we are frying our brains, and how to check it
GARIMA SADHWANI

PICTURE THIS.

It's a weeknight. On your way home from work, you listen to a podcast on which two friends give their opinions about a random subject. You reach home, change your clothes, have dinner, and get into bed, while the same podcast episode continues, or maybe another one starts.

All this while, you've been passively consuming the podcast—with the noise acting almost as background music to your life's mundane activities, just loud enough to drown your own thoughts.

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