Four days

New Englanders - we're not a journaling people. We're a hard-working, occasionally brawling, frequently sarcastic but not always introspective bunch. I know journaling is good for me, and I should do it, but anything that lives in a world of 'should' leads to relentless intracranial bickering. 'Should' seldom turned to 'did'. Whenever I have a moment that feels like a good time to journal, I cook instead, like my mother and her mother before her. It's hard to rewire. It's probably why I'm usually the culprit behind every 'potluck' thread in my WhatsApp conversations. If you told me I could dabble at journaling and not have a 'first day of the rest of your life' moment where I'm staring down a blank page, my interest might be piqued. You can imagine then how quickly I jumped at the scientifically supported four-day journaling protocol featured in the Huberman Lab. Four days. Fifteen minutes (I can make a batch of Marshmallows in about that time!). And it has lasting results.