Maintaining One’s Joy Despite All the Bad News

Maintaining One’s Joy Despite All the Bad News
Freshly printed copies of the San Francisco Chronicle roll off the printing press at one of the Chronicle's printing facilities in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 2007. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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In addition to whatever problems we’re grappling with as individuals, news reports constantly remind us that there are serious problems in the larger world beyond our daily routines. It’s proverbial in the news business that “no news is good news.” This refers to the tendency in human psychology to pay more attention to reports of dangerous, harmful, scary problems than to cheery reports that everything is OK.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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