Today there is just too much communication directed at us. Technological progress has enabled us to bombard one another with instant messages, pictures and emails 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When there is too much information, we tend to go for easy pickings or gleaned ideas. These pieces of information, however, may be inaccurate or malicious; thus, according to the management-issues.com website, we should think more than ever about what we absorb. We need to sift through every message that is competing for our attention and sort them according to their usefulness in a manner of our own choosing.
We must filter what we receive in order to be able to focus
In order to cope with the torrents of incoming words and images we face every day, we need to gauge how relevant these pieces of information are to our current situation. Otherwise this endless flow of incoming data would be of no real value to us. The trouble is that the heavier the bombardment of pictorial and verbal ammunition becomes, the less room there is for our brains to work on specific sets of tasks or focus on just one of them.
In the inflow of information, thinking is still crucial
Nowadays we can find a huge number of facts about almost any topic. The information is available to us all. Yes, that is a remarkable technological achievement, no doubt about it. But we lack a counterbalancing technology which would help us choose and absorb only what really matters to us. Now we alone are the ones who have actively to select the information that is most relevant to us at the given moment.
How do you handle the huge everyday flow of information?
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