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10 Reasons not to read the news
News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. The solution? Stop consuming it altogether
1. News misleads.
2. News is irrelevant.
3. News has no explanatory power.
4. News is toxic to your body.
5. News increases cognitive errors.
6. News inhibits thinking.
7. News works like a drug.
8. News wastes time.
9. News makes us passive.
10. News kills creativity.
And this was published on a newspaper website!
To put it another way: Philippians 4v8-9.
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things arepure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
