Dr. Daniel Crosby

to a highly edited highlight reel of someone else's life, it's the same thing that makes people depressed when they look at social media too much.

There's a lot of research now that shows that the more time people spend on Instagram and Facebook and the like, the more unhappy they become because of the same concept.

So what do we do to make better decisions?

We have to become an informed consumer of that media.

So there's a couple of tips that I would set forth.

The first is to evaluate the source.

You know, what are the credentials of this person?

Why, you know, did they just find someone with good hair who could tie a necktie and, you know, throw them on cable financial news?

Or does this person have a pedigree and a level of sophistication that makes them worth listening to?

The second thing I would have them do is to sort of question the tone and the melodrama.

I love to tell this story.

I wouldn't believe it if it didn't happen to me.

I won't name the channel, but I was wired up for a major international news channel and getting ready to promote one of my books when it came out.

And so I'm at a studio in Atlanta.

This person was in Europe.

And you have a little earpiece in your ear.

where the producer can, can sort of speak to you.

And so it was a commercial break and they're like, okay, you're going to be on in five, four, three.

And the producer says to me, you know, like effectively don't be a nerd, give us something good to work with here.

Right.