You’re naïve if you think the media you consume doesn’t affect your mental health.
Just like you’re naïve if you think the food you consume doesn’t affect your physical health.
What do you think happens when you consume too much bite-sized, sugar-coated, empty-calorie content?
Probably the same thing that happens when you consume too much bite-sized, sugar-coated, empty-calorie food.
If you want your mind to be healthy and fit, you have to treat the media you consume the same way you’d treat the food you’d consume if you wanted to keep your body healthy and fit.
For food, you already know that if it’s in the kitchen, you’re probably going to eat it. Likewise, if the media is in your field of vision, you’re probably going to consume it.
Want to immediately upgrade the quality of your life in one hour?
Step 1: Unfollow, block, mute, and otherwise remove any and all sources of highly processed, click-baity, shallow content.
Step 2: Follow, subscribe, befriend, and otherwise immerse yourself in sources of nutrient dense, clean, trustworthy content.
You can do this for people, brands, and ads alike—for every media platform.
I know of no better way to disproportionately upgrade the quality of your life in as little time.
Big media isn’t going away. Vilifying big media for being sources of shallow content is lazy and irresponsible. About as helpful as vilifying grocery stores for carrying processed foods.
Those who take their media diet seriously will enjoy the same results as the person who takes their food diet seriously.
Ready to upgrade? I hope so. Take an hour and get to it.