Don't Watch This: How the Media Are Destroying Your Life
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Today, the average person spends an astonishing eight hours a day watching TV or videos online. Watching social media stories, movies, and TV is now our number one activity, outpacing everything else that we do, including sleep.
This habit has an incredibly powerful influence on our lives – from what we think to what we buy to whom we elect. Media are more than entertainment; they are a drug.
This media addiction wreaks havoc on our mental health, causing increased stress, depression, and anxiety, and ruining personal relationships. It also drives us deeper and deeper into debt.
In Don’t Watch This, former TV producer and Ivy League professor Michael Rosenblum reveals the hidden psychology driving us to media addiction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices, but about learning how to use media for good.
Rosenblum reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of you. Inside, you’ll learn:
- How to take control of the media
- How to use your phone’s camera to spread stories worth telling
- How having a former reality TV star in the Oval Office has changed the scope of media
- Why posting selfies on Instagram isn’t going to change the world, and what you can post instead
Michael Rosenblum
About the Author As a baby, Michael Rosenbum would lie in his diaper and watch the ants move about on the sidewalk. Living in his imaginative worlds, he grew up as a whimsical thinker, realizing that even the sun plays hide and seek on a rainy day. This positive and hopeful mindset has empowered him to believe that even life’s unpleasant moments are just hidden lessons that can unlock his dreams. A successful businessman, he is humbled and passionate to share insightful messages within his “Happily Ever Always” series. The Caterpillar and the Butterfly, Michael’s first book of the series, featuring Faith the butterfly, was published by Austin Macauley in February 2021. About the Illustrator Matylda McCormack-Sharp is a UK-based artist who studied illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She enjoys working both traditionally, in ink and watercolor, and digitally. She finds illustration to be one of the most valuable forms of communication, and aims to create art that is playful and will engage across the generations. She created the illustrations for What’s Happening to Me Now?, a book about peri-menopause written by Heather Wright, and Yawa the Adventurer, a mid-grade comic series written by Bernard Mensah.
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