Coping with information overload

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A reboot is something that not only your computer needs, but also you yourself. In the modern world, it can be very difficult for us to distance ourselves from the information noise that surrounds us everywhere. We will tell you how to protect yourself from information overload in this article.

Today we can safely state that not only a person is looking for information - information is also looking for a person. Information completely unnecessary to us surrounds us everywhere, and we, willy-nilly, begin to absorb it.

Prioritize: focus on information quality, not quantity.

Don't be a passive consumer of information, create your own content. Starting your own blog or even a regular paper diary is a great way to rid your head of unnecessary thoughts and give it a break.

One of the biggest reasons for information overload is that we take on several tasks at once and, as a result, cannot fully focus on any one. Always solve one problem and only then move on to another.

Turn off everything for a while. Disconnect your computer, phone, and other devices. Don't rush to check your email every 15 minutes. Turning everything off is an easy way to give yourself a little but much needed rest.

Reboot yourself. What do we do most often when our computer freezes? That's right, reload it. When you feel that your brain is about to literally explode with information overwhelming it, give yourself a reboot: engage in activities that do not require serious efforts from you. For example, go to an amusement park, have fun, fool around - in a word, return for a short time to your carefree childhood.

Have you ever noticed how we perceive information? Often we do not read the text in full (especially for articles on the Internet), but perceive the information on top: we read, jumping over a line, skipping words, and sometimes even looking at only the beginning of the article and immediately go to the end. For the whole day, we accumulate such an amount of such fragmentary information that a complete mess is going on in our head. Read a good book to deal with this fragmented overload. It doesn't have to be classical literature, it can be any book you like and can read. This action will return your perception of information back on track.

Light up an idea. This does not have to be related to your professional activity, just try to start a project in any area that will interest you. This will force your brain to look for specific information in reliable sources, and not "everything, if only there was something to fill the time and your own head."

There are times when you need to memorize a significant amount of information, but at some point you realize that you can no longer: no information creeps into your poor head, and what you learned five minutes ago seems to have been erased from your memory. In such cases, do not try to heroically memorize pages of text, simplify the information: write yourself a short plan, and best of all, visualize the necessary information, present it in the form of a picture or diagram that you will keep in mind as a hint.