Following Low-information diet 👀

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace - ROBERT J.SAWYER, Calculating God

Here I am not talking about the no effort givers or pretenders here, I am calling out who actually seem to be working their ass off but at the end of the day still stretching end-to-end for the work that was on their priority list. 

Notice being occupied in more things actually drains out your ability to think and produce results properly? Most of us are hustling and jumping from one to-do point to another point, mostly feeling ‘Half achieved results but 100% efforts given’ type of situations.

So what is this? Why is this happening? I am not going to start the reasoning and explanation by stating - We all have the same 24 hour, here are some productivity tools which I use daily so that I don’t waste 1 second of my life. (You know what I am talking about, you have binged watched those YouTube videos like me XD, and nobody sponsored this piece c’mon).

The answer and solution to this is very simple yet needs patience to follow and practice. 

But first let’s break things and see Why MORE is not bliss?

Low-information diet is a diet which is prescribed to the information workers who eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources, just as modern age men or women consume too much calories with no nutritional value.

The example which I am going to give you is regarding one of the aspect which I illustrated, if you follow along well you can put this example and create your own scenarios-

From the above example we are able to see an unsettled and repetitive interrupted mind cannot concentrate on the main work and hence cannot produce good results.

Cultivating selective ignorance is actually a bliss and also practical. It is important to learn to ignore or redirect all the information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable. - TIM FERRISS, The 4 Hour Work Week.

Most information we consume today are both in excess, from the wrong sources, time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals and outside of your action.

Then How to deal with this inflowing information which I have 0 or some control of?

I developed a habit of asking myself - Will I definitely use this information for something immediate and important?

Information is not useful to use for ‘’Something’’ , if your answer is ‘NO’ for both, don’t absorb it. 

I had 83 open and pinned tabs in my laptop which we are good to have but unimportant and non-immediate information. I observed this habit of mine for a long long time, It was making me feel always highly busy but distracting and wasteful at the same time. One fine day I decided to open just the tabs on which I am working currently, no pinned tabs to remind myself that I have to open that tab. After growing this habit in me I realized the information which is really really important I will open them automatically while working on that, so no need to look out for the things which I am not worrying about now or maybe in future I will study those.

Focus on what Kathy Sierra calls “just-in-time” information instead of “just-in-case” information.