Quote from: neuro-artisan on September 28, 2017, 04:32:02 PM

Today we live in a world of information - you turn on TV, radio, watch some websites and you know what's going on around the world, newest tech inventions etc. in a matter of minutes.
Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, for me it's too damn overwhelming.
In the past months, I've applied the "information diet". I don't waste time anymore on 9gag tier websites or read any politics-related news at all.
Now I'm only focused on websites that are about the topics that I care about and interested in.

But still, there's too much of it all. There are more than 5 videos on YouTube daily, multiple news to read and even more topics to look into, research and learn.
I feel so overwhelmed Embarrassed

How do you guys stay focused and going forward? Because I lost my track - I want to do so many things but end up doing nothing - that's the worst feeling Huh

I don't think we should complain about too much information, I think we need to evolve and learn how to deal with the information we have, identify the good from the bad and act accordingly. In the days before the internet we had exactly the opposite problem, we didn't have enough information. If you wanted to find out about something you need to go to your local library and hope they had some books on the topic you were researching, very often they did not.

I was at a conference yesterday and I heard an expression that I hadn't come across before, the speaker was describing phases data passes through, it went;
1: Data
2: Information
3: Knowledge
4: Wisdom

I thought that was a useful way to look at it.