Filtering information
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Thanks Michael,
I found the funnelling and agergating useful, but I just need to check what I consider to be meaningful and what is worth paying attention to. Often I have competing interest that I don’t always come back to the information again (unless I am triggered by an idea).
Then, I am honestly struggling to concentrate and pay attention for long periods of time. It feels like there are multiple tabs open in my brain.
Oooo, I also started unsubscribing and unfollowing people on social spaces.
It can take a lot of time to effectively maintain your social graph, which may be why so few people do it. Another problem is that people tend to share merely interesting information, and this can feel like you need to pay it attention. I say ‘merely’ because simply being interesting isn’t a great reason to spend time on something. This is about filtering to get only the most high-value information that is worth your time. Of course, you can have different feeds for different purposes; there’s nothing wrong with having a different set of filters for entertainment, news, and so on.
Hi Simone. I hear what you’re saying about having multiple tabs open in your mind (I like that image, by the way). I think of those as “open loops”, which give me a sense of anxiety. I try to have as few open loops going at any point in time, which means I need a space to keep them until I’m ready to work on them. I talk about this in the course on Scheduling, in the section on Weekly reviews, so it may be worth checking back in there.
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