How an informational diet can change our lives

Has it ever occurred to you that people who procrastinate have the same problems as people who are obese? Just like fat people who indiscriminately consume unhealthy foods that make them ultimately unsuitable for life, procrastinators cannot refuse to consume tons of useless information that turns their brains from a unique powerful tool into a graveyard of other people's ideas and feelings. And just like obesity in the body, procrastination can be treated with diet. Informational.

Thousands of important events take place in the world every day. Yes, I also used to think that an educated, intelligent person should be aware of political life, the latest scientific discoveries, and emergencies. The latest book, music and film novelties. Sports. News. And so on, everyone can continue this list.

The only problem is that while you follow other people's lives, your life passes by. While you go through all these "most necessary" sites, half a day has already passed and your head is full of porridge from scraps of information. It's time to quit and go on a diet, returning your brain to harmony of ideas and speed of thinking.

Don't consume what doesn't concern you

An incredible amount of the most diverse information wrapped in bright attractive shells surrounds us and beckons us at every corner. Throw in your head everything that is slipped into your head! For myself, I have developed this habit: every time the hand habitually clicks on an interesting link, I ask myself - “I am reading this so that what? What is the purpose? (ask half the battle, be sure to wait for an answer:)).

You will be surprised how much information you absolutely do not need can be weeded out by this simple question. The vast majority of news will not affect your life in any way, so you can probably scrub most news and political sites out of your bookmarks. And don't worry if something really important happens, you will definitely find out about it. You don't need to watch the news “just in case”.

Don't consume anything negative

Human nature is such that we are involuntarily attracted to negativity. Try taking a pencil and, while watching the evening news, calculate the ratio of negative to positive stories in an issue. I ended up with a 10: 2 ratio. Murders, fires, road accidents, sick children, crimes … Journalists have become lazy and unprofessional and instead of preparing stories they visualize police reports.

Negative information does not bring anything of value into our life. It distorts the perception of the world and our psyche. Block it completely. We always have enough problems of our own, so there really isn't much point in wasting time worrying about the problems of people you don't even know.

Consume only minimal information

Now let's talk about work and how to better handle it. To complete any task, you may need to search and master new knowledge. Finding information in our time is not at all difficult, it is much more difficult to stop in time and start work. After all, the link is strung on the link, the page follows the page, and now we have moved away from the beginning of the task even further than we were at the beginning.

Dealing with this is very simple. Before you start gathering information, just write in front of you the circle of questions that you want to understand. Don't click on links that look interesting but do not match the questions you have compiled. Stop at the moment when all the questions have been clarified for yourself. This simple tip will help you avoid wandering around aimlessly under the guise of work.

One day a week for training

Yes, of course we are not machines and we cannot put our brains in an information vacuum. Sometimes you can pamper yourself. Snooze articles that interest you with one of the deferred reading services and set aside one day a week to study them. This is quite enough. Believe me, in this case you will be sooo responsible for the choice of articles and get special pleasure from their consumption. Your regular chewing gum will turn into an exquisite delicacy.

Create a barrier

It's funny, but I remember a time when there was so little information that people could “read newspapers between the lines” and did not sleep to listen to “enemy voices” at night. Today everything has changed exactly the opposite. It is necessary to protect yourself from information. There are a lot of ways and tools for this, we are constantly writing about them. You might want to turn off your TV, block Facebook and other distracting sites, install an ad blocker, clear your bookmarks, or even get a specially configured browser to work.

In fact, if you want to become a successful entrepreneur, a good writer, a popular blog founder, or find yourself in any other field, then you must build and implement a whole system of defensive measures aimed at reducing the information noise around you. Every minute of your attention spent on a site you don't need, reading a stupid article or watching a cool video, you pay for the work of other people, but you get one step further from your dream.

I'm sure it's time to stop this crazy gluttony and go on an informational diet! What do you think about this?