What Happens When You Stop Checking The News For 10 Years

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[@pavelsurkov2853]

This is a privilege of living in a country that exports all their wars outside of its borders. I have had instances where not reading news soon enough puts you in real danger.

[@kotenoklelu3471]

Yep. I live in Russia and after the war started I am scared of news. I know I need to know. But I just can't. I watch KZbin weekly news, it has time stamps and I read the headlines and skip to what I think interesting or important

[@bigben42]

@@kotenoklelu3471from your perspective how do you think the war is going?

[@kotenoklelu3471]

@@bigben42 I have no idea. One side say they are winning, other side say they are winning. I think Russia will reach it's objectives if something didn't happen (Ukraine started to mass produce AI drones, they can make a change on the battlefield, but maybe Russia will be able to counterattack: jamming or something)

[@bigben42]

@@kotenoklelu3471 gotcha, yeah it’s hard to say what will happen. Good luck out there

[@overcomebabylon]

100% agree with this.

[@-_M___M_-]

During COVID, I was consuming news all day long. I went news free after the panic stopped. Never went back. Love it.

[@arthurkillen396]

same

[@TheBruceKeller]

I usually only pay attention to tech and business news. Regular news is really psychologically damaging since they tend to go with negative topics that get the clicks. Plus it's just kind of weird when you see the clips that show all the broadcasts saying the exact same thing verbatim sometimes.

[@olliec1319]

The news isn't about informing. It's about stimulating strong emotions by telling extreme stories to get our attention to sell ads.

[@TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner]

Nailed it

[@TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner]

Nailed it. I haven't watched or read the news in over 10 years and it is so good. Other than headlines etc that go by in normal life.

[@veronicamahonv745]

I stopped watching the news back in 2009... My guidance & instincts will make me aware of the things I need to know

[@RightOverWrong]

Did your instincts lead you to take or not to take the jab?

[@manojpadki]

A big thumbs-up from a fellow news-dieter!

[@nancysmith3400]

That is so inspiring, I am going to check out of the news reports too. I have become aware that it doesn’t feed me anything of benefit anymore and hasn’t for a very long time. Thanks🤗

[@krisb-travel]

My friends watch a lot of news and get upset by it then fiercely debate the topics 😂 they debate them as though the presidents going to come and ask for their opinion 😂 I constantly remind them that no matter how much they debate with each other nobody cares what their opinion is 😂

[@PeterKoperdan]

It was interesting until I realized these guys are CEOs with basically personal assistants. If I could place a human as a layer between myself and some aspect of the world (e.g. checking news and social media for me), I can imagine many many ways of optimizing my life.

[@LivingProcess]

Brilliant as always 💚 I haven't watched the news in years

[@dustydus5762]

i never was into viewing the news, so when family or friends say "did you hear such and such happened?" i usually just say "thats crazy.."

[@CrazyCharizma]

In the normal world, maybe. In Ukraine where I live and anything can happen any minute not reading the news is not the answer. Especially about the things happening on the front when evert day the Russians are gaining metres/kilometres and God knows how many people are dying. Being not informed is just not an answer.

[@chelseag3365]

The EA thing is really unrelatable. Would like to hear strategies around this for average people who want to consume less or no news.

[@johnboylan3832]

Turn off the tv. The end.

[@turbdonkey]

Don’t have an account.

[@ollie_r8162]

Use a spouse or a friend or pay a college student for a few hours a week.

[@robinr5337]

Only get on social media to post, never scroll.

[@paulrichardson6]

I haven't consumed the news since 2009. Best decision I ever made

[@HiMotionAndDesign]

Very inspiring 💪🏻

[@EveryoneIsAmelak]

I HATE that im addicted to the news. I can feel it changing me.

[@marcinmrzyglocki]

What is EA/EAS, mentioned several times in the video?

[@notfounder_notes]

Awesome!

[@Podcasts_for_Lifecoaching]

Very interesting topic

[@BadMannerKorea]

The news and social media has actually saved lives through breaking coverage. Obviously not everyone is in these situations, but when you're in Florida and a hurricane is coming, it's good to know as fast as possible. Many fields actually require being up do date with current events, like politics, finance, and....journalism.

[@VladisAnalogEscape]

I live in South East Florida and have always learned about upcoming weather events from my family and neighbors. You can also sign up for a weather alert on various sites.

[@BadMannerKorea]

@@VladisAnalogEscape You can do whatever you want, but it’s quite obvious that keeping up to date is important for certain people, professions, and have saved lives in specific situations. If you don’t want to keep up to date that’s your decision.

[@VladisAnalogEscape]

@@BadMannerKorea no doubt that is true. Cheers!

[@TravelPhotoWriter]

You can sign up for local notifications from the NWS national weather service

[@krisb-travel]

No the news is a terrible place to get weather updates as they’re usually exaggerating or straight up lying just for clicks. Most news is fake or agenda driven, you’re essentially willingly linking up your brain to a brain washing machine by consuming the news.

[@EdwardHazell]

EA stands for?

[@marquise9b]

I liked him until he said other people do his social media posts for him. Mmmh. Not exactly news sober then. Socials are media.

[@Nick-nb3iu]

This is a huge miss for me. Do we want to create a world where the general public is less informed? Why are books inherently superior? Also, I don’t have a team of fuckin’ EAs managing my life. Surprised that it didn’t occur to them that this is a very privileged position to be in.

[@hugoantunesartwithblender]

Its better ti read them instead of view the news. 1 minute and you read somethingz instead of a 10 min story that stresses you. Also 90% of news are irrelevant for you

[@pentrubarbati]

i dont watch news either how privilaged i must be

[@nathansmith8187]

You should strive to be more informed about the clips you're commenting on. The full interview is on how the guest manages EA's for delegation. Your comment is a great example of a person who sees headlines and little news snips to form an entire opinion on a subject without digging any deeper. Your opinion isn't just wrong it's completely divorced from the point of the interview. That's the big difference between reading books and watching news.

[@triforcelink]

I wish yt had customizable filters for recommendations/subscription. I like maybe 10 percent of yt, rest is trash.

[@froodoftheforest]

Turn off watch history and all recommendations go away forever. KZbin becomes clean again. No trend videos. No suggestions at all. You become the one who has to find things again. The algorithm stops driving your experience. There is no downside.

[@triforcelink]

​@@froodoftheforest That would be a big step forward, Ill check it out

[@triforcelink]

I turned off and deleted all yt history, I still see recommended videos on homepage and next to each video. I'm using a browser, are you on the app?

[@triforcelink]

Ok, I got the homepage videos to go away, but the video recommendations under each video are still there.

[@robertfinch1658]

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -Plato

[@froodoftheforest]

Watching 'the news' isn't 'participating in politics' in 2024 - it's just opening wide and receiving whatever muck makes the media oligarchs the most money and sews the most division. You can be well informed without a network - I'd argue infinitely so. We participate in politics with our hands, our feet, our hearts and our wallet - network television has little integrity left to offer anyone anything.

[@airjordan1573]

What’s the guest’s name?

[@k8morgan]

Sam Corcos

[@michaeltaylor8719]

Always read the 'more' for information like the names and story of the guest. Tim never disappoints in this regard.

[@beefyogurt]

media said bitcoin was bad. i read books about bitcoin. my life is better

[@shaggybuckaroo]

This guy apparently does not live in WNC... Rare events are becoming not to rare...

[@accidentalfinder4916]

I have to slightly disagree unless you’re a social hermit. The right type of news is okay in moderation (20 mins a day). Books have their value, but it is limited. You must have a mix of both to properly integrate yourself into the social milieu.

[@DonnieBosede]

Refreshing.

[@EdwardHazell]

Put books 📚 in place of ‘news’ 📰 .

[@passepartout123]

How can you be a good citizen without news? You can leave social media, rip its' benefits and still be informed

[@triforcelink]

It’s like being surprised that someone can survive without eating McDonalds. Most of the ‘news’ isn’t there to inform you, it’s there to sway your opinion.

[@unknowablerootvegetable]

@@triforcelink To an extent I agree, but let's look at the context of these two people. They don't really have to worry about potential political changes to their rights, or worry that someone in the community is targeting them, and if they'd like to they can "unsubscribe" to the world as it is and would still feel pretty well represented. If women stopped listening to the news they could be blindsided by, for example, no longer being able to receive medical care in the case they are pregnant and miscarry.

[@triforcelink]

@@unknowablerootvegetable I imagine her local doctor would be far more knowledgeable on the medical care she can receive compared to what she would get from the news.

[@unknowablerootvegetable]

​@@triforcelink I think you're missing the point. Women have died in recent years because they can't get help for a miscarriage in their state because doctors fear being prosecuted for performing an abortion (on a dead fetus mind you). This is not a medical issue, this is political news that could change her life.

[@passepartout123]

@@triforcelink unless you have media literacy. Worst case, better badly informed than uninformed at all when it comes to exercising citizenship. Kinda difficult to use McDonald's metaphors when it comes to democracy

[@turbdonkey]

It’s an interesting idea. Natural disasters you would hear about by word of mouth. Political stuff is completely out of your control unless it involves you voting, in which case you could go online and research. There really is t a valid reason to watch other than entertainment.

[@gainde1137]

Replace EA by AI 😉

[@DataSerch]

And who's this guy?

[@k8morgan]

Sam Corcos

[@corgikun2579]

He's someone who Stopped Checking The News For 10 Years

[@balalnaeem]

Literally the check the description and you would know.

[@DataSerch]

I watched the video, then I checked. It wasn’t there when I commented. See you at recess, we’ll sort it out in a fight.

[@lotusinmud56]

This hit a nerve with alot of people lol. who then felt the need to judge and shame, and diminish. Hmmm.... interesting. Thank you, I found value in this. I also have imposed limits on news and spending energy on listening to and engaging in righteous indignation rants. Seeking facts, relearning truths, not conventional 'wisdom'. Plenty of real wisdom to absorb. 🪷💎🪷 (Fact regarding OJ.)

[@1vbAPiYk]

The perfect voter 🤣 Perfectly uninformed

[@mohtasimahmad9109]

I dont watched news when modi became p.m in india because he manipuleted news all the time

[@simini1837]

Everyone to his own but never watching/reading news makes you a dumb and self centered person who lives in his own bubble. Dont you want to know whats going on in your country and the world? This is not about Kim Kardashian gossip but informing yourself on politics, the economy, war, election results, climate change etc. Its all about balance: you can read books AND inform yourself on the news from time to time. Read a quality daily newspaper and/or investigative journalism. Sad video!

[@triforcelink]

Let’s be honest, vast majority of ‘news’ is just there to get your attention so it can be monetized or to push an agenda. 99.9% of it doesn’t effect our lives one iota.

[@erikmoenwallin9999]

Reading books make you dumb? People are fed kill counts and stories about car accidents and you think that makes you enlightened?

[@locololonumber2]

It’s sad that Tim’s media skills seem have fallen so far. These videos get so few views. And his team doesn’t even know how to optimize a video description with details about the guest / this particular clip.

[@Len_Dog17]

1.57 million subscribers and a few 100 views 🤯

[@kriskoss1325]

​@@Len_Dog17this is only here on youtube. On other platforms it is much more

[@000Kensey000]

This is the second clip I'm watching where words and whole parts of sentences are missing. Doesn't anybody check these before upload? Maybe turn the voice gate down a notch.

[@brewerstephen]

Willful ignorance is a crazy privilege flex. I hope the guy doesn’t vote.

[@krisb-travel]

You think the people watching the news are well informed to vote? 😂😂😂😂 lmao that was funny. They’re the most brainwashed of them all.

[@triforcelink]

Imagine calling someone ignorant for reading actual books, wow dude.

[@brewerstephen]

@@triforcelink Reading books is fantastic. But forgoing any source of current events is ignorance by definition. How many books have you read on the Ukrainian incursion into Russia?

[@triforcelink]

While I’m on Ukrainian side, that conflict hasn’t affected my life one iota, except it made me more stressed.

[@brewerstephen]

@@triforcelink Yet half the country is about to vote for someone who would very likely side with Russia in that conflict. That may not impact your life in the short term (let’s check back in 10 years after they’ve moved on to Poland and China has taken Taiwan) but that’s exactly what I mean by privilege and hoping someone who chooses to be ignorant of current events does not vote. I fault no one for choosing to opt out but if you’re going to opt out, please opt all the way out.

[@daveitferris]

I SWEAR to you, this is bollocks.

[@garyrobert1971]

I agree. I with him up to the point he started talking about his PAs. I get the idea of avoiding the news, but the BS of his PAs managing his posts is ridiculous. 😂 You are either on or off or you a charlatan virtue signalling…

[@nathansmith8187]

@@garyrobert1971 Yes we must only live extremes. The world can only be black and white.

[@corgikun2579]

I've picked up many girls because I read the news

[@BlessedAssurance949]

Is this a joke? How did news lead to pickups?

[@triforcelink]

woooosh

[@BlessedAssurance949]

@@triforcelink girls in the paper? 🤣

[@dinocarosi4303]

Ooo la la, did the newspaper teach you how to do that?

[@kjhhkntj]

I dig a thoughtful approach to cultivating one’s inner life. 🪴However… Since most humans don’t enjoy the basics of fully-protected financial assets and civil liberties, why completely disengage from the media? Why isolate oneself even further from what people are expressing in real time? This feels like a huge risk factor for living in a different type of echo chamber. 💔 Do it for a season? Sure. But as a way of being in the world? Feels like a privileged miss to me. Thanks for the food for thought! 🍱

[@successway6789]

During COVID, I was consuming news all day long. I went news free after the panic stopped. Never went back. Love it.