14 Reasons to Ignore the News and Boost Productivity

These days, we’re all striving for optimal productivity. We want to work, in the words of Daft Punk, “harder, better, faster, stronger.” But how? While the web offers a plethora of adages and advice on increasing productivity, there’s one simple trick that can greatly boost your productivity. It’s simple. You only need to do one thing–ignore the news.

The news is like the cookie monster. It just doesn’t know when to stop. It has little to no self-control. News, or the farcical stories that pass today for “news”, makes an effort to kidnap every spare moment with its ubiquitous presence while holding productivity ransom. The plain vanilla, hold-the-foam truth is that most of what we categorize as “news” is nothing more than a time sink. A time sink filled with water-skiing squirrels, but a time sink nonetheless.

14 Reasons to Ignore the News and Boost Productivity