Tag: News

Are You Addicted to Online News?

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You are working on an assignment, or perhaps a PowerPoint presentation and then suddenly you feel the urge to check your favorite newspaper website for the latest updated news. It could be the BBC, CNN, The Boston Globe, The Straits Times or the Times of India. The question is – do you really need to be constantly updated about somebody else’s take regarding the events happening in the world? Are your online news reading habits becoming an interruption to you, your work and the flow of your thoughts?

Now I do not blame the news providers for this, they are following and doing what they do best. The problem lies in our own mind and the habits we have created. We are addicted to news reading – or least a vast majority of business owners and professionals are. Earlier it was just the morning fix of news. But now with wireless internet coupled with laptop warriors around the place, it is continuous. You can keep checking the news 24 hours and keep reading endlessly about what is happening all over the world. The question is do we really need to know so much about everything?

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Storytelling and Media: Boon or Bane?

Story telling is addictive for the mind. The mind loves stories. Stories can be told in a number of ways and humankind can remain fascinated forever. Stories are powerful, because we create our reality in our mind through the words we use and hear. Not events per se in their purity, but the way we describe events to ourselves or the way someone else describes events to us, creates our perception of reality. Many stories use words (of course images, sound and video are used as well) and these have an impact on our mind.The problem is most of us mistake the story for the reality. Only an enlightened person (a person in deep intuitive harmony with nature and the universe) can see things for what they are; most will see only a version that they tell/repeat to themselves, which is conditioned by their culture, parents, upbringing or their own experiences. Continue reading “Storytelling and Media: Boon or Bane?”