Too much information or information overload

Many people are exposed to, read, or collect too much information, exceeding their processing capacity. This becomes the cognitive load and no longer serves a positive purpose in solving practical problems, or even creates obstacles.

Insufficient useful information can also get in the way of solving practical problems.

Have you noticed the following situations when reading and collecting information:

• Learning about some information or details too early.

• Learning about too much some information or details.

• Too much junk or useless information.

• Too much inactive or unused information.

• Information is too scattered, unstructured, and fails to form a useful system; it is poorly organized.

• There are too many or too few relationship between pieces of information.

• Seldom use or reuse the information that has already been collected or organized.

• A few or no analysis or extraction of useful information from raw data.

• Insufficient reading or collection of useful information.

These situations lead to a huge waste of our time, energy, and resources, distracted attention, and developing bad habits.

How should we solve these problems?

• Have good information sources.

• Reduce or eliminate exposure to useless or harmful information and its sources.

• Only collect the most important or useful information.

• Force yourself to take action and think critically. Analyze and extract useful information from raw data, and then record and save it.

• Force yourself to organize your collected information better.

• Be proficient in using search and filter.

• Regularly review, organize, delete, and use existing information.

• Develop good habits in life and work.