Hello dear readers,
cause if you're reading this, it means I am sharing with you something personal which makes us definitely closer than if we never shared anything at all... So what's the point of what I am writing, I am everyday discovering lot of stories, reading articles on the net, hearing things on podcasts, watching stuff on youtube and all, and this is some kind of massive information, most of it I will forget as soon as one or two days passes by, because there would be so much new other stories and there's simply not enough room to adsorb all of this... but what we do, is we keep relating and jumping from subject to subject, without ever stopping... our mind is like this little kid that you put in a toy supermarket and he just sees all this shiny toys and games everywhere all around him, and he starts trying each one for a very short amount of time before being attracted by a second one, then a third etc. so after a moment we can see that this kid (or that our brain if we want to cut the metaphor) isn't getting enough of anything, and isn't satisfied with anything. At the end, he wouldn't have played a single game from all of those, and he wouldn't have gotten any satisfaction at any level.
But in this generation of massive information, it's also the era of true dis-information. People suck whatever we give them, that's how we are wired. Always in need to discuss something, to discover every little story posted on our news feed, on our social media. Do you really care that a baby elephant was born in australia last week ? Do you really care that a guy was arrested last night for stealing a car in some place and he only got arrested because he went over speed limit ? I don't know... but those are just lot of things happening at the same time all over the world, and we can't possibly care about everything... What we need to do instead is refocus our minds on important things.. but what are important things ? This each one of us should take time to define it for himself.
What matters to you ? what doesn't ? So before reading something, ask yourself this question: Do i really care about this ? Does it make me any good to read this ? And if they answer is maybe or I don't know, then you probably do not care about it, and you probably could spend this time reading something more relevant to you or even not reading it and avoiding 'info-pollution' to your mind. Nowadays you can see so much Click-bait titles, like "Today, the CEO of X company share with us the secret of being successful" etc. kind of titles, that just draw your attention, into clicking on them, which means one more visitor to their site, which means more profit from adds depending on the time or the clicks or god knows what else, the end point : more money in their pocket more time wasted for you.
I'm not asking you not to read anything at all, but just take the time to think about what you will read, cause your spending time and energy on it...
Now on a personal note, I would love to find a news feed that is not "money oriented", that is provided by actual human beings who share the same interests as me and that really share for knowledge sake and intellectual growth ... Maybe, there are communities like that that exists and that i don't know about, maybe am being a little bit paranoiac about mass information, but I feel overwhelmed sometimes with this mass of useless information i keep feeding myself... Anyway this was just some reflections I've been doing and I felt like sharing...
Hope you guys have a great day, and I hope that reading this doesn't make you feel like wasted time...
peace to all !
PS: sorry for mistakes, am sure there are plenty, things are still messed up in my head and I haven't taken time to speelcheck it, so if you have any suggestions or corrections please contact me !
cause if you're reading this, it means I am sharing with you something personal which makes us definitely closer than if we never shared anything at all... So what's the point of what I am writing, I am everyday discovering lot of stories, reading articles on the net, hearing things on podcasts, watching stuff on youtube and all, and this is some kind of massive information, most of it I will forget as soon as one or two days passes by, because there would be so much new other stories and there's simply not enough room to adsorb all of this... but what we do, is we keep relating and jumping from subject to subject, without ever stopping... our mind is like this little kid that you put in a toy supermarket and he just sees all this shiny toys and games everywhere all around him, and he starts trying each one for a very short amount of time before being attracted by a second one, then a third etc. so after a moment we can see that this kid (or that our brain if we want to cut the metaphor) isn't getting enough of anything, and isn't satisfied with anything. At the end, he wouldn't have played a single game from all of those, and he wouldn't have gotten any satisfaction at any level.
But in this generation of massive information, it's also the era of true dis-information. People suck whatever we give them, that's how we are wired. Always in need to discuss something, to discover every little story posted on our news feed, on our social media. Do you really care that a baby elephant was born in australia last week ? Do you really care that a guy was arrested last night for stealing a car in some place and he only got arrested because he went over speed limit ? I don't know... but those are just lot of things happening at the same time all over the world, and we can't possibly care about everything... What we need to do instead is refocus our minds on important things.. but what are important things ? This each one of us should take time to define it for himself.
What matters to you ? what doesn't ? So before reading something, ask yourself this question: Do i really care about this ? Does it make me any good to read this ? And if they answer is maybe or I don't know, then you probably do not care about it, and you probably could spend this time reading something more relevant to you or even not reading it and avoiding 'info-pollution' to your mind. Nowadays you can see so much Click-bait titles, like "Today, the CEO of X company share with us the secret of being successful" etc. kind of titles, that just draw your attention, into clicking on them, which means one more visitor to their site, which means more profit from adds depending on the time or the clicks or god knows what else, the end point : more money in their pocket more time wasted for you.
I'm not asking you not to read anything at all, but just take the time to think about what you will read, cause your spending time and energy on it...
Now on a personal note, I would love to find a news feed that is not "money oriented", that is provided by actual human beings who share the same interests as me and that really share for knowledge sake and intellectual growth ... Maybe, there are communities like that that exists and that i don't know about, maybe am being a little bit paranoiac about mass information, but I feel overwhelmed sometimes with this mass of useless information i keep feeding myself... Anyway this was just some reflections I've been doing and I felt like sharing...
Hope you guys have a great day, and I hope that reading this doesn't make you feel like wasted time...
peace to all !
PS: sorry for mistakes, am sure there are plenty, things are still messed up in my head and I haven't taken time to speelcheck it, so if you have any suggestions or corrections please contact me !
Really great article, i feel the same in fact, and i completely agree with your suggestions. I think that the worle in which we live has changed, but we still didn't absorb all the changes that happened and that are still happening now. There is one blog that i could suggest : zenhabits.net. it has some useful information that aline with our needs.
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