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Information overdose
- Modern bonus systems are based on principle, what I’ve done to be where I am now.
- But it is completely blind to a point what I’ve avoided doing to get here.
- Which in most cases is more important.
- Procrastination is a natural defense that allows things to take care of themselves and exercise AF.
- Procrastination usually happens when you are faced with unnatural duties and procedures.
- Visiting a dentist, doing homework with your son.
- We, humans, are terrible at filtering information, especially short-term information.
- From a meeting, or newsfeed or social media feed.
- Procrastination is a safety mechanism to filter better, to resist the consequences of jumping into the pull.
- Jumping makes us neurotic individuals. Avoid at all cost.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37M1W8TPSPs
- Information can be toxic even in moderate quantities.
- This quality of data is rarely discussed, though Marcus Aurelius warned about it. ![[Марк Аврелий о чтении#^691deb]]
- The more you look at data, the more noise you get in return. ^f81513
- Reduce the frequency, instead of looking at the phone every hour, pick it up every two hours, or even better, every 4 hours.
- Use it primarily as a gadget to receive and make calls.
- Keep silent in the absence of something significant.
- Newspapers and social networks can’t do it, due to the economics.
- Information is a stressor. Too much of it and you step over a threshold of no return and drown.
- You are becoming fragile.
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