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# In a nut shell
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/in-a-nut-shell/
- Published: 2025-10-07T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-13T10:51:19.000Z
- Description: As in… this is what goes on in your nut-shell 😂
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Comics, Anxiety, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Psychology, Quick insight, Sleep, Stress, MECHANICS

We’ve have had a couple of lengthy Daily Reminders recently, so as a bit of a breather, here’s Matthew Inman summing things up for us, in three panels:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2026/01/2025-10-07-In-a-nut-shell.png)](https://theoatmeal.com/comics/brain%5Fjob?ref=gilespcroft.com)

[**Link to original cartoon*](https://theoatmeal.com/comics/brain%5Fjob?ref=gilespcroft.com)

It’s trying to help—it *genuinely* believes it is—but it doesn’t know anything.

💟

Giles