Stop Reading the News

yeah, no.

dobelli has some good points (news focuses often on the bad and sensational) but the way he frames everything and makes an idiot out of everyone who doesn't follow his news-free lifestyle is just making me not want to listen to Anything he says, even if it is one of the better points

“My year has twelve months, yours only eleven because you read the news and lose time” oh shut up Rolf
“if you really care about something, dont give it attention, work or prayers, only money”
“it is idiotic to concern yourself with things you can't change”
“any ideology is stupid”
then some screaming at clouds about celebrities being people who don't deserve it instead of inventors, casually dropping the alpha male ideology of women choosing higher status partner... if a book on the same topic with similar points was written by someone else, maybe it would've worked. i was hoping to find out something about the psychology of news, the inner workings of the journals headquarters or some studies backing up what he says. guess im gonna have to find that somewhere else