Share this —. Follow NBC News. World News Latest news from around the globe. China's leader cements his rule with rare 'historical resolution' In surprise move, U. Prince Harry says he warned Twitter it was 'allowing a coup to be staged' before Jan. OUT Health and Wellness. The clinic's opening and its celebratory coverage in Chinese state-backed media comes as the country simultaneously works to limit LGBTQ activism. News leads us to walk around with the completely wrong risk map in our heads.
So terrorism is over-rated. Chronic stress is under-rated. The collapse of Lehman Brothers is overrated. Fiscal irresponsibility is under-rated. Astronauts are over-rated. Nurses are under-rated. We are not rational enough to be exposed to the press. Watching an airplane crash on television is going to change your attitude toward that risk, regardless of its real probability. If you think you can compensate with the strength of your own inner contemplation, you are wrong. Bankers and economists — who have powerful incentives to compensate for news-borne hazards — have shown that they cannot.
The only solution: cut yourself off from news consumption entirely. News is irrelevant. Out of the approximately 10, news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that — because you consumed it — allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career or your business.
The point is: the consumption of news is irrelevant to you. But people find it very difficult to recognise what's relevant. It's much easier to recognise what's new. The relevant versus the new is the fundamental battle of the current age. Media organisations want you to believe that news offers you some sort of a competitive advantage.
Many fall for that. We get anxious when we're cut off from the flow of news. In reality, news consumption is a competitive disadvantage. The less news you consume, the bigger the advantage you have. News has no explanatory power. News items are bubbles popping on the surface of a deeper world. Will accumulating facts help you understand the world?
Sadly, no. The relationship is inverted. The important stories are non-stories: slow, powerful movements that develop below journalists' radar but have a transforming effect. The more "news factoids" you digest, the less of the big picture you will understand. If more information leads to higher economic success, we'd expect journalists to be at the top of the pyramid. That's not the case. News is toxic to your body.
It constantly triggers the limbic system. Panicky stories spur the release of cascades of glucocorticoid cortisol. This deregulates your immune system and inhibits the release of growth hormones. In other words, your body finds itself in a state of chronic stress. High glucocorticoid levels cause impaired digestion, lack of growth cell, hair, bone , nervousness and susceptibility to infections.
The other potential side-effects include fear, aggression, tunnel-vision and desensitisation. News increases cognitive errors. News feeds the mother of all cognitive errors: confirmation bias. In the words of Warren Buffett: "What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.
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Mr Guterres told the COP26 summit on Thursday that the announcements made so far after nearly two weeks of negotiations were encouraging, but "far from enough". He called on governments "to pick up the pace and show the necessary ambition" to confront the climate crisis, adding they "cannot settle for the lowest common denominator".
The summit is trying to advance global efforts to keep alive the Paris climate agreement of limiting global temperature rises to 1.
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