Everythinghas an answer.
Andeveryone has that answer.
Thegeek. The noob. Ifthey have a phone, they have an answer.
There’san App for everything today. Information is easily accessible by most. And it’spractically free. This bloated monster called the Internet has made our day today tasks easier but our way of living more complicated.
Toomuch information has taken away the essence of subjects. You’ll see many peoplein many professional fields with lots of information but without real skill ortested knowledge. Deep work is lost today for one simple reason. The internethas got us in a habit of scrolling and throwing. This has drastically reducedour attention spans. And this isn’t just reflected in our time on-screen butoff-screen too.
“Peopleknow about a lot” isn’t essentially the same as “people know a lot”. They mighthave a lot of information about varied topics but without much depth.
Thisdoesn’t reflect as well on our generation as most of us believe.
Butthen…
IsIgnore really bliss?
Idon’t know but I definitely worry less and live light on a day when my averageScreen Time is not six hours and the number of people who died of Covid todayisn’t the first figure I look at in the morning.
Whatyou’re ingesting directly shapes your quality of thoughts.
Somy dear young techies, it’s great that you like to keep yourself informed. Butalso be informed that in doing so, we’re somewhere leaving behind thetraditional ways of disciplined and mindful learning and instead making way forsuperficial learning.
Nowawareness is not a commodity millennial are ready to give up just yet. So howdo you aware yourself the right way? What information to intake? What tosideline? Which headlines to take with a pinch of salt? Which ones with sugar?
Let’sdiscuss some ways:
What’s going on in someone’s life barely qualifies as knowledge. And yet most people who categorize themselves as informed know more about titbits of someone’s lives than their own professions and passions.
Bepicky with the information you consume. Let the motivational, developmental andtransformational information come rolling in. Does it add to your day? Your wayof thinking? Your way of living? If yes, consume it. Adopt it. Live it.
Ifit doesn’t, move on and let go. Be careful with what you introduce to yourbrain as it will multiply inevitably in your life.
Westarted #FirstStoryPositive at True Scoop to change the game. Our firstpublished story is always about a good news. Because we want to kick start yourday the right way. The positive way. At the end of the day, you produce whatyou consume. Many great philosophers and self-help bestsellers lead back to thesame thing.
Yourstate of mind is your state of life.
Overconsumptionof information can pollute the mind. Contrary to popular belief, it canactually cloud your decision making instead of qualifying you as a smartcookie. Too many choices often puzzle the mind.
Cleansingyour mind of all the thoughts for some time during the day can actually helpretain information better. Taking breaksis essential. Start your day with 15 minutes of silence where you push away allthe noise that’s inevitably going to run your day. And see the difference itmakes on your mind’s agility.
Whenyou experience something, you remember it for a longer period of time. Focus onexperiential knowledge rather than textual. Grasp the art of learning in a waythat it develops your brain, instead of idly occupying it.
I,for one, choose to be in uninformed bliss than to be an informed idiot. What’syour pick?