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Ways To Help “Keep Up”

Information overload, information anxiety, multitasking - the age of the information highway. There is a lot of information out there that is all so interesting, and yet, we can’t simply keep up. Nor should we try, even if devote our lives in following the latest news and trends, you end up keeping up with maybe one or two subjects, but the rest fall apart. It’s okay though, we are only human. In fact, forcing ourselves to try and keep up radically reduces our ability to retain any information at all!

However, there is hope. With some strategic practices, you too can cut out the useless bits and focus on the meat. You still won’t be able to focus on everything that you want, but at least you might be saving yourself some sanity. Plus, you might be able to remember your girlfriends anniversary instead of clicking refresh on your RSS news aggregator.

So you let the stack of “things to read” pile up, then eventually when the pile gets to high you end up tossing half of it–or worse, moving it to a deeper “stuff to read someday stack. We have selective amnesia about what we’ll ever get to, but mainly because most of us keep feeling like we have to keep up! Keep up with what?

You can’t keep up. There is no way. And trying to keep up will probably just make you dumber.You can never be current on everything you think you should be.

I will admit that I am a victim of trying to “keep up.” Then again, I’m also trying to learn to cut back only to what is really important.

Keeping Up [Passionate]

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