We must be willing to miss our Watergate.
August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon gave a resignation speech and the following day gave up the presidency. All because of the Watergate scandal, where members of a group connected to Nixon and his re-election campaign, broke into the Watergate Hotel in the Watergate complex in Washington D.C., on June 17, 1972. These members planted bugs, listening equipment in the Democratic National Committees headquarters.
Quite the juicy scandal indeed. Writer Steven Pressfield in a podcast interview and in his book, THE WAR OF ART, mentions that he missed Nixon's resignation. His speech and the presidential vacancy. Why? He had his head down focusing on his work. He was busy writing and not concerned with the events of the time. Pressfield learned of Nixon's resignation long after it happened.
Today however, with the second by second updates and news headlines, we cannot create the same focus. Even if we wanted, it is hard to do with our connected, technological world. Many among us pride ourselves in knowing the daily briefs and staying current with them. But its a lot and yes it is nice to be informed, we can all agree that all the news headlines today, can be passed over. Devices has lead to more distractions and attention spans to shorten. I believe that these devices steal a lot of our time and why so many of us feel busy. We give away our time to this thing in our hand.
We must be content to be clueless. Who cares if Trump had a bad hair day. Or the latest celebrity drama. It's ok to not know about the new show or movie that just came out. How is any of that helping you anyway? Unless you're studying film, maybe. Or competing in trivia contest. FOMO (fear of missing out) is what you're worried about. What about the fear of missing out on your potential? The action you can do to do something with the time you have? Doesn't that concern you? Or does pseudo-informed matter more?