The 3 Things You Do With Information (That Can Hurt You)
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When you take in information, you run it through a filter, namely you: Delete it. Distort it. Generalize it. You have to, otherwise you’d die of overwhelm since there are billions of pieces of information assaulting your senses every second. The problem comes when you’re deleting the key information that could change your life, or you're distorting your problems to make them worse than they actually are, or you're turning information into automation, and getting stuck in a pattern that no longer serves you.
The 3 Things You Do With Information (That Can Hurt You)
The 3 Things You Do With Information (That…
The 3 Things You Do With Information (That Can Hurt You)
When you take in information, you run it through a filter, namely you: Delete it. Distort it. Generalize it. You have to, otherwise you’d die of overwhelm since there are billions of pieces of information assaulting your senses every second. The problem comes when you’re deleting the key information that could change your life, or you're distorting your problems to make them worse than they actually are, or you're turning information into automation, and getting stuck in a pattern that no longer serves you.