How are you making the world a better place today? #Habits

2 Jun 2020 · 1 min

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Short spoken monologue by TJ Walker discussing balancing news consumption with personal contribution during extreme global situations. He recommends generally limiting news to about 30 minutes each morning but acknowledges that during crises (pandemic, economic downturn, protests) increased attention is warranted and urges listeners to act to help their communities rather than only watching events unfold.

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Many self help gurus say never ever watch news tune out. It's all the same old thing. Waste of time. Spend all of your time reading philosophy, creating. There's some wisdom to that. I think it goes too far. I typically say limit yourself to no more than 30 minutes of news consumption in the morning. That's what I do. But sometimes there are extreme situations. We are in an extreme situation in the world today. Between pandemics, depressions, civil unrest, protests going around here in the United States and around the world. I do think it warrants spending more than 30 minutes a day consuming the news. We are citizens of our communities, our states, our countries and the world. We need to know what's going on. And then you got to figure out how can you help. Doesn't help to just watch the news all the time but you've got to figure out some way of contributing to make the world a better place.