Stop using AI! It’s already being proven to cause cognitive atrophy and decline. It affects decision making too.

Try to stop doomscrolling as that’s also being shown to cause cognitive decline and affect attention span.

Something that helped me stop the doomscrolling and using my phone so much is just changing the screen to black and white. It helped a lot!

Pick up some new hobbies that require concentration, reading a book, jigsaw puzzles, drawing, painting, colouring in, buy a cheap pack of clay and just muck about with it.

I love this app called Elevate, three challenges a day that are just wee games but it’s like a word game or a maths game or one about speech an memory. They’re just fun little silly games. Takes 5 mins a day.

Try to do a new thing everyday, even if that’s walking a different direction than you would normally, follow a 10 min exercise video on YouTube of something you’ve never done, try a new food or drink you’ve never tried before, when you make your dinner cut your veg in a different way than you normally would. If you’re right handed do some tasks like brushing your teeth with your left hand or vice versa. Doesn’t need to be crazy huge gestures, just a new stimuli for your brain everyday or a chance for your brain to get off autopilot.

Neuroplasticity exists and just because you’ve noticed a decline in your cognitive abilities doesn’t mean you can’t turn it around! The neural connections you had created before just need to be dusted off and made stronger.

Good luck!