Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and the future. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the supermind.
This week – news.
If there is one place the majority of the world first turns to every day, it’s the news. It’s their ‘go to’ in search of understanding how life is and what events are occurring around the world and the people that go with them. But, in doing so they are exposing themselves to increasing amounts of negativity and shaded presentations of life. Therefore, this week I want to look at news and put our SuperMinds to good use on its presence.
- News was designed to inform us of the current affairs of the day. But that has clearly morphed into world politics, celebrity gossip, sports highlight stories, and even now opinion of what might happen next on a whole range of topics. News has changed. So, that begs the question for us all to consider. What IS, and should only be, news?
- Radical thoughts – news programmes are a dark space often fear filled featuring the worst in the world. They negatively impact people’s minds. News programmes should therefore be limited to 10 minutes only on mainstream channels permitted to share just the headlines. Any other news (such as rolling news channels) is behind age protected premium pay walls.
- Social media is the main source of fake news, of people sharing stories in an instant that they haven’t checked are true at all. This leads to misinformation gathering pace and soon the truth is buried under an avalanche of made up lies and propaganda. How would you change this so news could not be shared by individuals and only official media outlets and broadcasters?
- Quote from American writer, Peter McWilliams – ‘The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news’. How would you force/compel/ensure that the media share as much good news as they do poor news?
- Many people actually watch news all day. In essence, it has become an addiction. How can we measure the harmful effects of news on people so that their lives and society itself doesn’t suffer?
That’s Supermind Saturday for this week. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its untapped power. Consider more, reflect more, think more, activate your connection to your personal mind more. Let them super sink in and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.