Odc. 64 - Take a break from the news!

You can hear the same news from two different people and you would get something which sounds like two different stories. Also known as a spin, if I remember correctly from my internship at the local TV station. With that in mind, getting news second hand gives you an incentive to do diligent research on a particular topic, which I started doing more often after the experiment, and make up your own mind about what you hear. However, it takes a lot of time to educate yourself sufficiently on the topics covered by the news, so you need to pick and choose.

However, opposite to sugar, this poison isn't sweet. How can you find satisfaction in believing that the world is being flushed down the toilet? There's no use in getting worked up over events we have very little influence over. If you feel like you are overloaded with information and it's causing anxiety, stress or worry, take a break. Take a few days to clear your head. Believe me, if the world was about to end, you would know it without watching the news. It's time to revise the vocabulary section.