Low-Information Diet: Day 2
Note: This is Day 2 of Dan’s Low-Information Diet week.
So yesterday was my first day of plugging out from the world of news. Am I missing anything? My guess is no, since no one I’ve talked to has brought up anything in the news. Anything important enough for me to pay attention to would somehow find its way to me.
Yesterday I deleted the little BBC news icon on my Web browser, just so I wouldn’t check it to see what the headlines were. Even so, I found myself typing in “CNN.com” out of habit when I was bored at my computer at home, only to stop myself in time. They say about 90% of our days are guided just by habit, without us thinking of them.
With all of the free time without TV, I decided to rent a movie from a DVD renting vending machine. After a few minutes of browsing, I settled on “Zodiac” - the movie starring Jake Gyllenhall. The movie was good enough to have me sit through it for a full two and a half hours - and usually, I’m never doing just one thing. (Note: That’s a movie you want to rent if you have two and a half hours of time set away, because you won’t want to pause it at any point. My early feeling is: three and a half stars.)
I didn’t really miss TV, and even though I could have watched an hour of it in the evening, I wasn’t all that interested. Usually I turn on the TV just as noise while I do other things, but changing that habit wasn’t all that difficult.
I’m already drawing the conclusion that day-to-day TV and internet news is virtually irrelevant to the point of not being worth your time for anything except entertainment. So far, however, nothing has been that beneficial that I’ll keep doing it beyond this first week. We’ll see how different I am come Friday night.
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