The Power of Good News
Feeding Your Mind With What's Good For Your Heart
Published on 11. May 2021
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-5230-9278-9 (ISBN)
Description
The media's bias toward stories of conflict, violence, and division is bad for your health. Hal Urban shows how to find the positive and uplifting all around us without sticking our heads in the sand.
The news media thrives on bad news. In recent years, the political climate has become vitriolic and divisive, our country seems more polarized than ever, and news feels inescapable because technology has significantly increased its reach. People who like to stay informed need a lift.
Most people are aware that what they eat greatly impacts their physical health: junk food is bad, vegetables are good. Hal Urban argues that we can nourish our minds by choosing how we consume news, and that when we surrender all that choice to media and external forces, we give up our growth, freedom, and mental health. Countless signs of progress and acts of kindness exist all around the world if you know where to look. And there are positive aspects in our own lives--family, friends, simple beauties, and everyday generosities--that we take for granted. This book helps readers understand that, as the late Zig Ziglar said, "You are what you are because of what goes into your mind."
The news media thrives on bad news. In recent years, the political climate has become vitriolic and divisive, our country seems more polarized than ever, and news feels inescapable because technology has significantly increased its reach. People who like to stay informed need a lift.
Most people are aware that what they eat greatly impacts their physical health: junk food is bad, vegetables are good. Hal Urban argues that we can nourish our minds by choosing how we consume news, and that when we surrender all that choice to media and external forces, we give up our growth, freedom, and mental health. Countless signs of progress and acts of kindness exist all around the world if you know where to look. And there are positive aspects in our own lives--family, friends, simple beauties, and everyday generosities--that we take for granted. This book helps readers understand that, as the late Zig Ziglar said, "You are what you are because of what goes into your mind."
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5230-9278-9 (9781523092789)
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E-Book
04/2022
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
€18.18
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Person
Hal Urban was an award-winning teacher at San Carlos and Woodside High Schools and an adjunct professor at his alma mater, the University of San Francisco, where he received a lifetime achievement award. Since 1992, Dr. Urban has been passionately dedicated to the Character Education movement—he also received a lifetime achievement award from Character.org. He speaks nationally and internationally. The heart of his message is good character and good news lead to a good life.