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The news is not your life

Oliver Burkeman · 16 Aug 2021 · oliverburkeman.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    People cannot thrive while their primary psychological identification is with the news cycle rather than with their own lives.

    Their wordsThe trouble is that human beings can't really function, let alone thrive, when their primary psychological identification is with things like "the news cycle" or "history" or "the course of world events."
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    The answer to living inside the news is not to stop reading it but to move your emotional investment back into the part of the world you can actually affect.

    Their wordsBut it is an argument for reducing your emotional investment in the world of the news, and reinvesting in your own.
    Interesting