News Blackout

After being asked to do a 48 hour news blackout, I must admit, I was the least bit apprehensive. I figured, just dont watch the news, and no newspaper assignments for the week, thats simple. Little did I know, I was in for a rude awakening. I woke up on the first day of my attempt, washed my face, brushed my teeth, ate something... then went to check my email, yahoo news. Hmm, ok facebook... status's and posts all over the place. Blackberry, twitter updates. Seriously? Immediately, I was fully aware that not only was this going to be a very long 48 hours, but completely blocking out all news was going to be damn near impossible.
I took the extra time to help my brother plan his wedding, do some homework, and work. But even at work, clients were practically yelling news at me. Did you hear this? Did you see this? I realized that news is not only what you see on tv, or read, but even the foolish things like, "Brad and Angelina decide they want to adopt a hatian baby to save their relationship" was considered news. I dont want to say that I failed at this attempt, but after 24 hours of the loudest silence, day 2 I had to at least turn on my radio while I drove. ::sigh::

Why do we write things down?

"If you ink it, you think it". The average human brain capacity ranges from 1 to 1000 terabytes. 1 to 1000 is a big difference. If you fall within that population containing 1, you more than likely cant remember a thing. However, if you write things down, your brain doesn't have to work as hard. Because the Human Brain is hardly reliable in every situation, writing things down is the safest way to avoid the wide variety of interpretations of truth and reality. External support is by far, in my opinion, the best reliance. Besides for documentation purposes and records, writing things down is both helpful and a stress reliever. If you write things down, such as your shopping list, or an itinerary, your brain can take in more information, resulting in a less stressful mind. The importance of writing things down is a clearer mind!!