What Is Open Loop Fatigue™?

Open Loop Fatigue™ is a modern mental condition caused by the accumulation of unresolved thoughts, decisions, tasks, and emotional obligations—what we call “open loops.”

Coined by Melanie Gow, founder of Open Loop Mastery™, this concept explains why so many high-performing and growth-oriented people feel mentally overloaded, even when they aren’t physically overworked.

Symptoms include:

• Mental fog despite rest
• Constant sense of “I should be doing something”
• Chronic overthinking
• Feeling productive, but rarely complete

Open Loop Fatigue is not burnout. It’s fragmentation.
Your cognitive energy is drained not by doing too much—but by holding too many things open at once.

This is the sign of an overwhelmed narrative system — your brain caught in open loops, incomplete stories it’s desperate to resolve.

Open Loop Mastery™ is a methodology designed to help you identify and close the mental loops stealing your clarity, energy, and focus.

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