Whenever stress, anxiety, or a down and uninspired mood linger past a day or two, John Mayer says he’s realized it’s typically due to “spending too much time in the boiler room,” as he refers to the inside of his head.
“The inside of your head is a very subjective, highly interpretive, world,” Mayer says. “Visit it the way you would visit the spooky basement every once in a while just to grab something out of the second fridge. Go in there, grab what you need to grab, and fix what you need to fix. Then get out of there and back into the more objective work—do things, create something, make stuff happen out in the real world.”