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GREAT VISION:
Our vision is to eliminate apathy by spreading good news and showing the world how much progress we’ve actually made. In a world filled with negativity and pessimism, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and helpless. We want to change that by sharing stories of hope, progress, and positive change.
We believe that the news we consume has a significant impact on our overall well-being and outlook on life. Unfortunately, traditional news sources often focus on the negative, sensationalizing stories of tragedy and conflict. While it’s important to be aware of the challenges we face as a society, we also need to celebrate our successes and recognize the progress we’ve made.
GREAT MISSION:
At GREAT NEWS, we are committed to bringing you stories of progress and positivity from around the world. From advances in science and technology to inspiring human-interest stories, we cover it all. Our goal is to help our subscribers stay informed about the positive changes happening in the world and to inspire them to take action in their own lives.
We believe that by sharing good news, we can make a real difference in the world. When we focus on the positive, we are more likely to feel hopeful and optimistic about the future. We are also more likely to take action to create positive change in our own lives and in the world around us.
Thank you for joining us on this journey to eliminate apathy and spread good news. We hope that our podcast and newsletter inspires you and brings a lot of positivity into your life.
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Tired of all the Doom & Gloom News from Mainstream Media? You’ll get none of that here!
Instead you’ll find inspiring stories and developments that are making the world a better place.
Tired of all the doom and gloom news from mainstream media? You’ll get none of that here! Instead, you’ll find inspiring stories and developments making the world a better place
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Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.
Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.
Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen
How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment
How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy
Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!
How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter
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Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!
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A Podcast Designed to Kickstart Your Day in a Positive Way!
Tune in daily to get a short dose of daily inspiration to kick start your day in a positive way.
the Daily Quote brings you inspirational quotes to help motivate and inspire your day with positivity.
Listen to the show for positive quotes from Albert Einstein, Maya Angelo, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, William Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, Confucius and more…
Every single day you will hear a motivational quote to fire up your day.
Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast.
Because good news should be heard and the link is in the show notes.
Today we return to Epictetus, the Greek Stoic philosopher born into slavery who became one of the most influential thinkers in history. A man who understood, from the most visceral possible experience, the difference between what you can control and what you cannot. From his Discourses, he wrote:
”The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”Read that as the equation it actually is. The more energy, attention, and emotional investment you pour into things that are not in your hands, the less of all three you have available for the things that are.
It's a leak. And most of us are leaking constantly.The outcome of the meeting you've already done your best to prepare for. Whether the person you care about responds the way you hope. What the market does with the investment you've already made. How the audience receives the work you've already put out. Whether the weather holds for the event you've already planned. None of it is in your control. But the mind treats all of it as if sustained worry could somehow influence the result and in doing so, drains exactly the energy and attention that could be going toward the things that actually are yours to shape.
Epictetus put it plainly elsewhere: ”Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” Not ignoring them. Not pretending they don't exist or don't matter. Disregarding them — withdrawing the emotional investment, the anxious attention, the draining value placed on outcomes you cannot determine. What remains when you do that is not emptiness. It's clarity. The things genuinely in your control your effort, your response, your attitude, your choices, the quality of what you bring to this moment suddenly have all the attention they deserve. And those things, properly attended to, are enough to build something real.
The Stoics called this the dichotomy of control. If you can control something, there is nothing to worry about. If you cannot control something, there is still nothing to worry about because it will happen as it will, and you can do nothing about it. The worry was never useful. What was useful was already available, your own response, your own effort, your own mind. So here's the question: Where is your attention currently going, toward things in your control, or things outside it?Because the energy is finite. Every unit spent on what you cannot control is a unit unavailable for what you can. And what you can control, right now, today, is more than enough to work with.
Withdraw the value from what isn't yours to determine. Put it where it actually belongs.
That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern — I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.
Andrew McGivern
Podcast Host
Hi, I’m Andrew McGivern and I’m the host of the Daily Quote, Great News podcast and editor of the Great News Letter.
If your tired of hearing about how bad the world is and want some reality based GOOD NEWS to cheer you up and inspire you then you’ve come to the right place.
With a diploma in Business Administration and Commerce and a Bachelors Degree in Economics, I’m interested in covering how converging technological advances are about to radically change our society for the better.
