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School place appeals up and down
If you take a close look at the kind of crap we read everyday, for the sake of "knowing what's going on in the world" or "being more informed or sophisticated", you will recognize the extent of negativity we are bombarded with from our environment. Imagine pepole reading these news day after another - for years! I'm not suggesting that we should turn a blind eye to what's going on in the world, but we should be removed from the things that we are reading, refuse to let them affect us in negative ways and keep in mind that there is no news source that is 100% reliable. Most messages we get from the media are distorted in some way to make them more appealing to our senses. I believe that the first step is just to realize how much negativity there is all around us and it has the potential to bring us down when we don't consciously recognize its existence and just take it as given.And now, here is some groundbreaking research for you as your bonus: