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How Do You Focus on Useful Things in the Face of Information Overload?
Inundated with information overload, how do you shift your focus to what you can control?
Let’s face it — the world is mad.
Spend any time whatsoever on social media, watching or reading the news — and you’re bombarded by all the evidence of the madness — and then some. The 24-hour news cycle doesn’t make us collectively more informed. In truth, it makes us more scared, distressed, and unhappy. We don’t know the world around us and what’s happening better — we just get flooded with wave after wave of information.
What’s more — most of that information does you and I no good. None whatsoever. Zero. Why? Because it’s all about things that neither you nor I can do jack shit about.
Everything happening an ocean away is out of your control. Think about — what, if anything, can you do about things happening thousands of miles away? Nothing.
Likewise, everything happening outside of your locale is out of your control. Whether you voted or not — that’s the extent of your direct control.
Before I dig deeper, I am in no way, shape, or form, advocating for being ignorant. Voting exercises a fundamental right, as do protests, sending letters and emails…
