A low-information diet
Deliberately restrict inbound information: unsubscribe from social-media notifications, skip routine news, adopt a no-clickbait policy, and pull updates on a topic only occasionally when you choose to. Constant intake clutters the mind, and the brain's negativity bias turns that clutter into anxiety.
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Constant inbound information is a major source of mental clutter, and the brain’s negativity bias means it disproportionately surfaces the negative items — it takes several compliments to offset one criticism, so a head full of irrelevant input gets filtered toward the threatening parts, fuelling anxiety and overwhelm. Too many options compounds it: past a point, more choices don’t improve decisions, they overload working memory and make choosing harder.
The counter is a ‘low-information diet’ — actively restricting intake rather than passively consuming it. Concretely: unsubscribe from social-media notifications, stop watching the news on a regular schedule, adopt a strict no-clickbait policy, and replace passive feeds with the occasional, on-demand pull on a topic you actively want an update on. You stay informed without paying the constant clutter tax. The principle generalises to relationships and environments too — toxic situations and excess options burn bandwidth, and removing them frees a surprising amount of it.
