Stop reading the news. It makes you depressed or angry. Go hiking. Walk on the beach. Play with a dog or your children. Climb a tree.
Leave the slave slab phone at home, or delete every news and social app. Do not browse the web. Take a book and read.
It will be hard at first. Then it gets easier. Best thing I ever did.
Reminder. What passes for news today wouldn’t have registered for most people 100 years ago.
I get the gist of it but I think being informed is useful. The best way is having access to quality news with a balance. It does not need to be constant outrage.
Yes, staying informed can help in some cases. But there are also many situations where it wouldn’t have made a difference. The amount of noise you have to sift through to “stay updated” is huge. At some point, it becomes a trade-off: consume a constant stream of news to maybe avoid a rare edge case — or tune it out and accept that very occasionally you might get unlucky.
This is a great point.
Up to a point. There are some things that should not be ignored, e.g., "Trump says he's not mulling a draft executive order to seize control over elections":
* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-hes-not-mul...
"Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency":
* https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2...
The prior news that "sources close to people who say they hear from a guy who went to school with someone who said ... that trump said he was mulling thinking about drafting an executive order ..." should be ignored, the follow up should be ignored and the inevitable follow to the follow up should also be ignored.
These are attention seeking outbursts at best, clickbait, lies and propaganda at worst.