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Less News, More Life

Imagine someone telling you News is to the mind what sugar is to the body. . It sounds exaggerated at first. But that's exactly the argument made by the Swiss writer Rolf Dobelli. 

Sugar isn't necessarily bad. It's sweet. It's stimulating. It gives us an immediate reward.

And that's exactly why it's hard to stop consuming it.

Dobelli argues that news often works in a similar way. A breaking story. A scandal. A crisis.

Another notification. Each one gives our minds a small hit of novelty and urgency. And we keep coming back for more.