The Low-Information Diet
This isn’t my usual post, but I have to write it to let you know that I’m undertaking a little experiment. Since I’m always making fun of TV news, but I actually still watch it, it’s time to put my money where my mouth is.
In Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Workweek, he talks about a Low-Information Diet as being ideal to freeing up the most time possible:
Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least two of the four.
So he suggests plugging out from media news (including internet media like CNN.com and Drudgereport). These are the other rules:
- No newspapers, magazines, audio books, or non music radio. Music is permitted at all times.
- No news websites whatsoever.
- No television at all, except for one hour of pleasure viewing each evening.
- No reading books except this book and one hour of fiction pleasure reading before bed.
- No web surfing at the desk unless it’s necessary.
So that’s what I’m doing this week, since he recommends five full days. Instead of regular news-oriented posts, I’ll be posting random opinions, since I won’t know what’s going on in the news. I invite anyone who’s interested in doing this to try it with me - on Friday or Monday, I’ll report back the results.
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