{"id":9409,"date":"2012-03-13T02:25:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T09:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9409"},"modified":"2012-03-13T02:25:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T09:25:14","slug":"ignore-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/13\/ignore-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore the news"},"content":{"rendered":"

In which I preach (or rather relay someone else’s preaching about) what I don’t practice (and I’ll bet he doesn’t, either).<\/p>\n

Swiss writer-entrepreneur-brainstormer Rolf Dobelli<\/a> explains how news watching is wrecking our brains<\/a> (.pdf) and screwing with our priorities.<\/p>\n

A sample (which resonates with me because I’ve said the same thing in less elegant words many a time):<\/p>\n

Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that \u2013 because you consumed it \u2013 allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career, your business \u2013 compared to what you would have known if you hadn\u2019t swallowed that morsel of news.<\/p>\n

The point is: the consumption of news is irrelevant to the forces that really matter in your life. At its best, it is entertaining, but it is still irrelevant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here’s a follow-up (also .pdf) in which he conducts an imaginary interview with himself<\/a> about his radical proposal of avoiding news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In which I preach (or rather relay someone else’s preaching about) what I don’t practice (and I’ll bet he doesn’t, either). Swiss writer-entrepreneur-brainstormer Rolf Dobelli explains how news watching is wrecking our brains (.pdf) and screwing with our priorities. A sample (which resonates with me because I’ve said the same thing in less elegant words many a time): Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that \u2013 because you consumed it \u2013 allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career, your business…<\/p>\n

Continue readingIgnore the news<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-and-spirit","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}