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whilst writing this blog, i have found having something at hand to drink to be helpful. i think it has something to do with the repetitive actions of lifting and drinking every few minutes. it seems to help with concentration, and, in turn, with entering a state of flow.

coffee used to be my drink of choice, but it has lost its place as my go-to drink for writing. don’t get me wrong, i still love coffee. it’s one of my favourite drinks, and a cortado certainly gives me the jolt I need to start writing.

i have found, however, that the amount of coffee i need to consume over an extended period of time spent writing causes me to crash like crazy afterward. It’s no surprise that drinking a chemex worth of coffee will make you ridiculously wired!

this led me to search out a new drink… yerba mate.

yerba mate is venerated in much of south america (a uruguayan friend first introduced it to me a few years back). the drink is made by filling a hollowed-out gourd 3/4 full with dry yerba mate leaves, adding a little cold water and then filling up the remainder of the gourd with hot water (between 70-80°C). You then consume the yerba with a long metal straw known as a bombilla, which has small holes in the lower end to filter out any leaves or twigs.

it is refillable many times over, so i can drink it over extended periods of time. drinking yerba mate seem to give me a softer, longer-lasting buzz, and more importantly, i experience much less of a crash afterwards!

yerba mate has definitely become by drink of choice for writing!

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