#166: Why DC Went on a News Fast and How You Can Too
Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel
Molly Sloan
5 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
DC and Adam are back to talk about... the news?! That's right. In a year that's been dominated by the news, DC has figured out how to tune it out. But not in favor of ignorance. Instead, he does it for his own sanity and productivity.
In this episode, you'll learn about DC's eight-year-long news fast, how it's helped him focus on what's most important, and why it's the ultimate mood builder. Plus, hear how he tunes it out, but still manages to check in.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get to the show, did you know you can get more insights just like the ones you're listening to right here on seeking wisdom, deliver right to your inbox? |
| 0:14.1 | Sign up to get my weekly newsletter. It's called The One Thing at drift.com slash DC. |
| 0:25.9 | Thank you. one thing at drift.com slash DC. What's going on? We're back. It's episode 166 of seeking wisdom. The universe is only |
| 0:33.4 | six-star only podcast, and I have the young, young, young young Jedi Adam Schoenfeld here he's tan |
| 0:41.8 | he's got the hair of a god he's ready to drop some knowledge here on seeking wisdom I appreciate |
| 0:48.3 | the hair of the god compliment that me look at my hair look look watch the you have to watch the |
| 0:52.7 | YouTube videos to take a look at my hair take Take a look. Don't tell me anything yet. |
| 0:56.7 | 360 degree view right there. |
| 0:58.2 | 360. I'm giving you 360 looks here, but you have to go on YouTube and subscribe and make sure to hit the bell so we get notifications when we drop new seeking wisdom episodes. |
| 1:08.7 | So what are we talking about here, Jedi? |
| 1:10.5 | For those people on audio who just heard that and haven't come to YouTube yet, I don't know |
| 1:15.3 | what else we could possibly do, but we're going to go forward to the show. |
| 1:18.8 | This is another one of the what you wish you knew in your younger series. |
| 1:21.9 | You said never read or watch the news. |
| 1:25.2 | Please. |
| 1:26.7 | Please. |
| 1:32.7 | End of episode. All right. Let's go back in time. So this is about avoiding the news. One of the things that we talk a lot about and we think a lot about is that we |
| 1:39.0 | are the average of the five people that are around us, right? We've talked about that a lot. |
| 1:42.3 | One thing that we miss in doing that |
| 1:44.7 | in talking about or even thinking about that is that that does not have to be literally the people |
| 1:48.9 | around this, but it is the information, the environments that we put ourselves around. We average out, |
| 1:55.1 | right? At the end of the day, we have no chance but to average out because one of the, |
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