The Information Factor

We've all go information/content producers. More to the point, we have got all go skilled in generating information than almost anyone have in managing it.

This do it extremely hard to calculate out which information is utile and not uneconomical or, even worse, destructive. The nett consequence is we seek to acquire our work done, but information looks to acquire in our way.

A single publication company like Reuters bring forths an amazing 27,000 pages of information per second. Whoops… it looks we forgot to inquire the question

"How much information can any 1 individual pull off at a given time?"

The sum freedom and the complete handiness of practically all information diluted information's significance and value to us.

Nobody ever taught us how to pull off this overpowering measure of information effectively.

During the information age it was thought that information was power. And for a piece it was – until the amount of information exploded and the Internet leveled the playing field (when it came to the entree of information). Still today certain types of information can give unbelievable wealthiness (like insider trading knowledge) but overall the worth of information have got decreased dramatically.

A Reuters study of 1,300 concern people, revealed that two-thirds of the respondents' personal human relationships have been damaged because of extra information.

These respondents also experienced more than latent hostility at work and experience less satisfied with their occupations because of extra information. Forty percentage feel of import determinations acquire delayed and the ability to do good determinations is hammered by too much information.

Nonetheless, two-thirds of the respondents said they wanted even more than information!

The psychologist Saint David Lewis, who analyzed the determinations of this survey, proposed the term "Information Fatigue Syndrome" to depict the consequent symptoms. " Symptoms include palsy of analytical capacity, increased anxiety, greater self-doubt, and a inclination to fault others. When people are faced with more than information than they can process, they go not able to do determinations or take action."

Other side-effects highlighted by Jerry Lee Lewis include anxiety, mediocre decision-making, troubles in memorizing and remembering, and decreased attending span. The more than than information we seek to sucking in, the more we develop ourselves to default on to a shorter attending span. (read my station about The Attention Factor: http://jayderagon.com/blog/?p=94 )

Recent Idahoes research establish the norm cognition worker passes up to 25% of their workings clip searching for information. Unless your highly disciplined it's easy for the necktie between information and action to be severed.

The inactive activity of reading and surfing the cyberspace can gull practically everyone into believing that existent work is being done.

The chilling secret is this: if we're not witting of this horrid head virus, we can endlessly detain having to make any existent thought whatsoever simply by stacking more than than and more spots of information in presence of ourselves.

Now we're being overloaded with petition to fall in societal networks, accept invitations from others, fall in groups, rss feeds from beginnings of information we like, news flashes before our eyes constantly….are you fatigued yet?

How productive are we in our information assemblage task? Are we thinking or becoming dense by the all the information we gather? Are we thinking or gather?

Until convergence haps and we Ussher in a true Relationship Economy our productiveness is being killed by more than information.

What state you?