The Implications of Information Overload

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The Implications of Information Overload





There are a million and one information on the internet on how you can make money online without spending money - that is, making money free of charge.

But you have to actually watch it because you can't afford to fail in your business irrespective of having enough information at your disposal to succeed.

You can't afford to get so confused that you don't know what works and what does not work. You don't need to get so loaded with information that you don't know your left from your right any more in regards to running a business.

One thing you have to understand, which I have discovered a long time ago, is that information overload could be a mark of laziness. It could show how lazy and greedy you have been. It could show how you have chosen to just sit down and keep feeding yourself with information without thinking of how to implement the information. It could be a sign of being eager to consume everything that is called information as if you want to be the only custodian of that information.

It might interest you to know that information is like food and information overload is like eating too much food. There is nothing wrong with eating food but eating too much food is a problem because everything in life is all about moderation. In addition, if you eat food but you don't, after sometime, go to the toilet, then you have a problem to either solve or end up where you wouldn't like. You will feel more or less uncomfortable, sad, and frustrated.

Similarly, information overload leaves you with discomfort, unhappiness, lack of focus, confusion, depression, stress, anxiety, and frustration.

Information overload makes you to feel like backing out. It makes you to feel like signing off and shutting down. It makes you feel that everything about the subject sounds too good to be true.

Information overload makes it almost impossible for you to separate the weed from the wheat.

I have another advice for you. If you want to prevent information overload, this is what you have to do when going through threads, posts on forums or any information you download from any site or search engines:

"Open a word pad or note pad. Copy the relevant information you want from the sites. Paste the information on the word pad, note pad or any other program you want to use. Save the information on your computer. You can also save the name of or bookmark the site in case you need to refer to it later on."

You have to be sure that you saved the information very well to avoid looking for it and not finding it after all the pains of getting them - this could be very depressing and frustrating. So, you have to concentrate fully to avoid being disappointed.

Information overload is not good for you if you really want to do any business and make a living out of it.

Raymond writes on various issues concerning how to make money, lose weight, enjoy good health and produce good music. For your writing needs, contact Raymond through e-mail: raymondedeh@gmail.com

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