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Overcoming News Addiction
Written by Steve Pavlina
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I had already dropped TV news and newspapers, but I still had the habit of checking Yahoo News or CNN every day or two, so for 30 days I decided to drop all news sources and go totally news-free. In this article I'll share what I learned from this experiment. It went well enough that I intend to remain free of the habit of daily news checking...
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