How to Let Go of Things That Make You Upset

"I would be glued to the news and then I would pick my head up and realize that I was more depressed than I had been 10 minutes before," he says. "So, you know, what I realized was that I had to take myself in hand and turn away from some of the things that to no end, to no good end made me more upset." He goes on Zen retreats every year where he doesn't look at his phone or watch TV for seven days. 'When I came back after seven days, almost nothing had changed'