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Is Your Media Consumption Making You Sick? Ruby Warrington’s “content diet” for better living

2024/12/30
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Megan Down: 作为节目的主持人,我认同内容消费对我们思维方式和生活方式的影响,它如同饮食一样重要,需要我们谨慎对待。 Ruby Warrington: 我在今年早些时候感到被过量内容消费所压垮,这不仅影响了我的情绪和写作思路,也让我在专业上感到困惑和迷茫。我开始减少内容消费,例如取消订阅大量新闻和社交媒体,这让我感觉好多了。很多人都有类似的感受,我们可能已经到了一个阶段,无意识地消费内容不再健康。我们需要更加关注内容消费对我们身心健康的影响,并采取措施进行调整。内容节食的概念类似于我之前提出的“清醒好奇”的概念,它是一种对内容消费进行反思和调整的方法,帮助我们更好地管理信息摄入,维护身心健康。 Ruby Warrington: 我之前出版的书籍宣传期结束后,我感到身心俱疲,这让我意识到我过度消费了媒体内容。这不仅影响了我的幸福感和批判性思维能力,也让我在选择下一个写作项目时感到迷茫。为了改善身心健康,我减少了媒体内容的摄入,例如取消订阅大量新闻和社交媒体,这让我感觉好多了。很多人都有类似的感受,我们可能已经到了一个阶段,无意识地消费内容不再健康。我们需要更加关注内容消费对我们身心健康的影响,并采取措施进行调整。内容节食的概念类似于我之前提出的“清醒好奇”的概念,它是一种对内容消费进行反思和调整的方法,帮助我们更好地管理信息摄入,维护身心健康。

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As you make your new year’s resolutions or plan for Dry January, returning guest Ruby Warrington has another idea for better living in 2025: go on a “content diet.” In this conversation, Ruby describes the overwhelming nature of content consumption and its impact on mental health and wellbeing. She draws parallels between the “sober curious” movement, which she spearheaded, and the need for conscious content consumption, emphasizing the importance of awareness in our media engagement. We also talk about the pressures of content creation, the role of intimacy in communication, the rise of AI-generated content in the digital landscape, and the important of reading novels and listening to music.  GUEST BIO Ruby Warrington is the author of Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood and is the creator of the term “sober curious." Author of the 2018 book Sober Curious and million-download podcast of the same title, her work has spearheaded a global movement to reevaluate our relationship to alcohol. Other works include Material Girl, Mystical World (2017), The Numinous Astro Deck  (2019), and The Sober Curious Reset (2020). With 20+ years’ experience as a lifestyle journalist and editor, Ruby is also the founder of the self-publishing incubator Numinous Books.    Get her book here: https://bit.ly/4gLN3oV). Want to hear the whole conversation? Upgrade your subscription here). HOUSEKEEPING Visit The Unspeakable on YouTube)! Unspeakeasy 2025 retreats. We’re going to Texas, Los Angeles, upstate NY  and beyond. See where we'll be)! Join The Unspeakeasy), my “women’s shelter for the politically homeless.”