News Is Bad for You

Around the web - by Matthew

News misleads. News inhibits thinking. News wastes time. Simply put, news is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier, argues author of The Art of Thinking Clearly, Rolf Dobelli.

In an extract of an essay first published on the writer’s website, Dobelli elaborates that new leads to fear and aggression, hinders creativity and ability to think deeply. It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic.

His solution? Stop consuming it altogether. Less disruption, less anxiety, deeper thinking,

Source: The Guardian

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