Less is More
Every Day Encouragement (13/365)
Yesterday, the brilliantly engaging Nia at hope and wonder was sharing 5 excellent wellbeing tips that she has found useful for getting through these most unusual and pressured of times.
I was delighted when she mentioned ‘switch off the news’.
An echo to what we had been saying to the Mums in Team Feasts + Fables.
Find a way to pick up the essential guidance; lay off the 24-hour commentary. Facts … not fluff. The things to do, not the subjective interpretation of what that means for every individual the news outlets can find to illustrate the extremes or the worst-case-scenario.
Not for the first time, I am reflecting on Chapter 6 of the Tim Ferriss classic ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’. It is a chapter about a low-information diet. Tim advocates a life of ‘selective ignorance’; he tapped into the wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson who said:
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
In times like these, those words resonate with me. They reinforce my determination to take that low-information diet; those words cement my commitment to reading broadly, for leisure … perhaps to escape that 24-hour diet of junk news.
Go on, give it a try. It may just be the easiest diet to stick to.
When it comes to news, less is most definitely more
Every Day Encouragement is a side project of feastsandfables Encouraging words, written and shared every day for 2021.
