🚨BREAKING: Your brain is not your friend!

How doom news and doom scrolling are fighting on the front of your creativity, and the AI shield you need to fight back.

You open your phone to check one thing. Just one.

But first, a headline catches your eye. BREAKING: Something terrible has happened somewhere. Your brain, a loyal servant with a terrible evolutionary glitch, pays attention. Our ancestors survived by obsessing over potential threats, and our brains are still wired with a "negativity bias" that makes bad news feel more important than good news.

The news feed knows this.

Media outlets, desperate for clicks, have used this glitch, studies show that negative words in headlines dramatically increase engagement. They serve you another story, then another. Each one triggers a tiny, stressful jolt. Before you know it, you are deep in the doom news cycle.

Then, you switch apps for a "mental break." You open TikTok or Instagram, but the algorithm has been watching. It knows your brain is already primed for high alert content. So it feeds you an endless scroll of outrage and arguments.

You have just been hit by the punch that is killing modern creativity.

Doom

Doom news and doom scrolling are not two separate problems. They are two sides of the same, attention-draining coin.

Doom news is the dealer. It creates the product, outrage, anxiety, fear that it knows our brains are biologically wired to seek.

Doom Scrolling is the addiction. It's the compulsive consumption of this negative content. It overloads our working memory, breaks our attention span, and leaves us with the cognitive ghosts of what we just saw. This follows us into our next task, making deep, creative work near impossible.

As a marketer, your job is to create positive narratives and clear messages. How can you possibly do that when your own brain has been mixed in a cocktail of chaos?

You can't. You have to build a shield.

The "Digital butler" protocol

You can't change the news, and you can't change the algorithm. But you can change how you interact with them. This prompt turns your AI into a personal digital butler, tasked with filtering the entire digital world for you so you can stay informed without getting infected.

The "Digital butler" prompt:

• Act as my personal 'Digital Butler.' Your only job is to protect my focus and creative energy. You are to be neutral, unemotional, and ruthlessly efficient.

• I am giving you a list of 5 news sites and 3 industry blogs. Your task is to scan them and provide me with a single, one-paragraph "Executive Briefing."

• This briefing must follow these strict rules:

• Summarize only the top 3 most significant updates relevant to my industry (marketing and tech).

• Use completely neutral, objective language.

• Explicitly ignore all political commentary, emotionally charged language.

• Your goal is to give me 100% of the necessary information with 0% of the emotional cost. Acknowledge if you understand this role.

Why this changes everything:

This isn't just a summary prompt. It's an act of strategic delegation. You are outsourcing the very act of doom scrolling.

You no longer have to go through the digital jungle to find the nuggets of gold. Your butler does it for you. It allows you to stay informed, a professional necessity, without paying the mental price that kills your ability to do the creative work that actually matters.

It's the ultimate defense in the war for your attention.