"Limit news to what you can act on One host described his wife's approach to external news and world events: she routinely turns off her phone and social media, and when her husband tries to inform her about something troubling, she simply says, "If you think I need to know something, tell me." He realized that almost nothing he was tempted to share would change anything she could do, and that comedian Duncan Trussell captured the principle perfectly: "Some poor phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he's supposed to be." Practically applying this means auditing which news inputs you consume daily and asking, for each one, whether knowing it will change any decision you make — and unsubscribing from anything that only raises your anxiety without giving you any lever to pull. Source: Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Mind Pump Podcast, Blue Collar Fitness & Scale Weight Pitfalls"