Great long thread about similar strategies I've been discussing here for riding waves of uncertainty. I learned a lot the first time round and had a plan in place this time that has WORKED. 1. Focus on what you can control 2. Limit your inputs - ThreadSky

kameronhurley.com • 26 days ago

Great long thread about similar strategies I've been discussing here for riding waves of uncertainty. I learned a lot the first time round and had a plan in place this time that has WORKED.

1. Focus on what you can control
2. Limit your inputs

Reposted from The Questionable Authority

Very early on, I figured out two important things:
1: Routines matter.
2: There is such a thing as too much news.

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pixelfish.bsky.social•25 days ago

Similar to what I told my mother-in-law.

https://bsky.app/profile/pixelfish.bsky.social/post/3lgrtw346lc2r

dashwallkick.bsky.social•26 days ago

"log off and stop looking at photos of exploded children" seems to be a thing people simply don't want to do when it's the first example of how to improve mental health.

biancanycole.bsky.social•26 days ago

📌

lorymar.bsky.social•25 days ago

Great advice💙 trying to overwhelm us.

kameronhurley.com•26 days ago

When discussing this strategy I've run into a lot of folks desperate for news. My suggestion is the one I just gave my mom, which is to watch PBS News Hour once per day. They will have had time to collect the day's events into a cogent narrative instead of disjointed headlines. And there's few ads

moviessilently.bsky.social•26 days ago

I have been doing the same. I have muted nearly every national news-related item (I don't mind international and local stories) in my social media account and click Not Interested on video commentary that pops up and then catch up from a calmer source.

joy-ful.bsky.social•26 days ago

📌

vickspy.bsky.social•26 days ago

That is what I watch. Usually on Friday only. Skip the rest.

tentinquarantino.bsky.social•26 days ago

I’m ignorant, sorry. What is the best way to watch this? The scrolling is killing my soul.

vickspy.bsky.social•26 days ago

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/

Here is the link. Limit your doomscrolling. It doesn’t do anyone any good.
Be sure to leave time to take action.

kimperronewriter.bsky.social•26 days ago

Holy crow, lady! I needed this thread this morning. I imploded last night — big time—and I haven’t formally turned on the news since 11/6. It’s all from keeping up with headlines off my phone and social. I now have my phone set to go off at 6 pm for PBS news today. Thank you! Back to writing…I hope.

kameronhurley.com•26 days ago

I spent first 25 years of my life getting news once a day - max!!! - at 6am or 6pm and it was fine. Better than, really, because there had been hours between events to build them into a cogent narrative that was more likely to have been verified. We aren't made for doomscrolling. It makes us unwell

thecorrection.bsky.social•26 days ago

I can still hear the 'boop beep beep bop boop' theme music of 1960s CBC morning news in my memory.

You're right. Must think on it. When's the best time for news? Who should I listen to / watch?

andymac.amlm.us•26 days ago

I said this to my wife last night. There’s too much “news”. We need it reported in the morning and the evening. The cable news channels can chew on it all day if they want but i want a 1 hour “here’s todays news” without commentary or opinion. And no more fluff pieces!

jmla.bsky.social•26 days ago

You are reading my old mind. 15 minutes at 6pm and again at 11 if you were into sports. And for the hardcore an hour on PBS at 630. And yeah a spot check in the morning that was mostly about the weather.

laurieinqueens.bsky.social•26 days ago

Also, the news was simply reported, without bias or opinion. Just tell me what happened, not why you think it happened, how you feel about it, who you blame for it, and what myriad conspiracy theories you associate with it.

kameronhurley.com•26 days ago

I was talking with a coworker who said he felt bad for turning everything off and I said, "Dude, we're in MARKETING. We know how this works! We are literally the people designing the ads and narratives that capture people's attention. We KNOW how much of it is literally designed for max hysteria."

kameronhurley.com•26 days ago

Worse, the firehose does NOT - contrary to what media wants us to believe - make us more likely to DO something. It fractures and fragments our attention so we can't focus on ANYTHING. We don't think. We REACT. We get overwhelmed, which makes us depressed and anxious, and MORE LIKELY TO DO NOTHING

kameronhurley.com•26 days ago

There's this theory that some forms of depression are survival mechanisms that are triggered when we're confronted with overwhelming powers/people. It drains our energy, flattens us out, makes us submissive and lethargic because that behavior says "I am not a threat to you. Please don't hurt me"

kameronhurley.com•26 days ago

Mainlining disjointed bits of information is making us WEAKER and LESS resilient. As a marketer who wants you constantly engaged with my ads or my app, I don't want you to know this. I want you to feel your life is incomplete if you aren't constantly engaged with my content.

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