04/02/2026
This Is What Happens to Your Brain
This is what happens to your brain when your self-worth crashes—and it's wild. Scientists watched people's brains physically change: the prefrontal cortex shrinking, the hippocampus losing branches, and the social radar dimming. Every harsh self-thought thins the neural pathways between reward and self-knowledge. Result: compliments feel fake, failures feel fatal. But here's hope: six weeks of daily two-minute pride recalls grew the PFC back 7%. Your brain literally rebuilds when you give it new evidence you matter. 🔬 If you could rewire one self-thought today, which lie would you delete first? Comment below and follow for daily brain hacks.