INFORMATION OVERLOAD – The art of Information filter

It’s no news that we are in an era of abundance of information. I really don’t know how to put it but you know what I mean. The internet is obviously responsible for this. As much as it has its beautiful and amazing benefits, the internet, that is, it has its dark and evil side. The internet birthed social media which is when heck of a thing, it birthed, networking, it birthed virtual reality, etc. and of course our dear blockchain technology. One thing for sure is that all this cool stuff has made life easier but it has made a lot of people’s life more difficult. People have used this amazing tool called the internet to bring amazing and life-transforming change and good to the world, also people have used it to wreak havoc. We are glad for the gift of the internet and try to make the most of it. One thing I have observed is that the more this whole thing, like the internet, technology, etc. keeps improving the more our troubles keep multiplying, it’s counterintuitive. You’d be expecting more peace but its more headaches. There is a lot of reasons for that which I didn’t know, but I do know that the human mind is so powerful that it can invent trouble where there is none.

There is so much out there that sometimes we just get burdened and at the most severe stage, depressed. There are those set of people get so bothered about how great everyone else is doing and they are not. How they are missing out from everything and all that batshit crap, I think the term is “FOMO”, fear of missing out. There is a lot of completed shit to this and how to handle it and all that stuff but I am just trying to point out one very important thing, “information filter”.

There is a lot of stuff involved in this and I would try to give you my “layest-man” definition of what information filter is. It is the mindful selection of relevant information that is worth consuming. It involves you carefully running through the monumental information available and choosing what is relevant. Choose right and verified sources to get your news, if you have to. News is garbage these days anyways. The real legends and intelligent people are not the ones who consume all information but those who chose pertinently and pressing information to take in.