Micro Class: News + Mood

Foreign. Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class. This one's on news and your mood. It's inspired by an interview I did with Michelle Gillen, her great book Broadcasting Happiness. Broadcasting Happiness, where she shared. Michelle Gieland is a former CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher. She. She's married to Sean Achor, another leading positive psychologist. And she, Sean and Arianna Huffington did some research on the effect of news on your mood. And of course, your mood affects your overall productivity, well being, et cetera. Here's the basic nuts and bolts of this study. If you look at even three minutes of news, negative news, which is kind of redundant, cause that's pretty much what.

News is these days, right?

Three minutes of negative news in the morning, your mood will be down significantly eight hours later in the day.

Like five to eight hours later or.

Something like that, right? Just three minutes of news early in the day, boom, mood's down five to eight hours later. That's interesting. And one of the things they did.

To counteract this, by the way, was.

To take this news. So imagine the groups come in, right? One group gets the negative news, another group doesn't get the negative news. The group that does get the negative news, their mood goes down. But. But another group got this negative news. And then they were given a simple tip to think about what they can do in their own lives to positively affect the people around them. Basically kind of an antidote to the negativity, well, shoot, this is going on in the world, but I can do this. This is the small little thing that I can do right now to play my part in making the world a little bit better, a little bit brighter. Then they move from hopelessness and helplessness, which is how we often feel when we digest news, right? Particularly digitally, get bombarded by it into empowerment and we can actually do something.

Positive in the world.

So if you're going to ingest, and when you ingest news, make sure you do it. And at the end of it, you do it with a view toward what you can do and how you can improve the world again.

It doesn't need to be huge, but.

Do something to get out of this negative state. And remember the fact that our brains did not evolve to experience the flood of information that we have now. We are bombarded with more information in a week, some researchers say, than we used to be in our entire lives. We were evolved to deal with one lion attacking us. Now it's as if the jungle is rising up against us every single minute of every single day. That's unsustainable. So pay attention to that. And if you can move this news time closer to the end of your day and remember this little positive intervention and remember our whole you can be reactive. If you're starting your day loading up news, ah, you're wasting the best energy in your day. Move that seat to the front and be creative first. Do this work in giving yourself to the world first. Then we don't want to ignore everything that's going on in our lives. Obviously, Michelle jokingly called that her niece described it as ostrich sizing yourself from the world. You don't want to be an ostrich with your head in the sand, right? But you also don't want to be completely reactive to it all day long. And most importantly, you want to figure out what positive thing you can do in your world to make a difference today. News and Mood Hope you enjoyed and.

Hope there's some ideas there that you.

Can use to have another awesome day. See you.

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