Too Much Information

Kitsu Tails wrote: Mmmm I kind of have to disagree. I mean obviously Information Addicts are out there and people are Gluttons for punishment....

But I also think it is very very (Way too) easy to get sucked into it all. I find myself getting sucked into it for a time and my mood changes. I get more angry, more bitter, more tense and tight, and eventually I have to stop and say....well why? It almost always leads to:

People on my facebook are flooding my wall with Negative Information about how frelled up the world is. - I already know that...why focus on it?

My husband is really sucked into it right now so he talks about it all the time. So I get it almost all day from him - I aready know it...so I need to find different, positive things to distract him

Jedi Groups talk about the political morality - Another cramming of information / Drift away from the forums for a bit

Sometimes you just don't even realize just how deep you are until you stop and say

"Wait a second....."

So learn how to be more present in the here and now. Spend less time in Facebook, block people out. If a Jedi group is rehashing negative events, get the hell outta Dodge for a while. Take care of you FIRST. Saying there's too much information is saying you have little to no control how you receive it. Idk, I guess being a Capricorn helps...

Rickie wrote: The world is FILLED with TOO MUCH information!
What do you think?

I'd have to agree. It's a little hard to explain, though. In terms of the 24-hour news channels, I have to avoid them. It's like they try to make everyone terrified with every story they bring up. Fear mongering, in other words.

Life was a lot simpler, some 20 years ago. But I think the increase in information has been a good thing such as in technology. I'm thinking of medicine, primarily. Most other kinds of technology seem superfluous.

I don't know, I may be wrong.

Zenchi wrote:

Kitsu Tails wrote: Mmmm I kind of have to disagree. I mean obviously Information Addicts are out there and people are Gluttons for punishment....

But I also think it is very very (Way too) easy to get sucked into it all. I find myself getting sucked into it for a time and my mood changes. I get more angry, more bitter, more tense and tight, and eventually I have to stop and say....well why? It almost always leads to:

People on my facebook are flooding my wall with Negative Information about how frelled up the world is. - I already know that...why focus on it?

My husband is really sucked into it right now so he talks about it all the time. So I get it almost all day from him - I aready know it...so I need to find different, positive things to distract him

Jedi Groups talk about the political morality - Another cramming of information / Drift away from the forums for a bit

Sometimes you just don't even realize just how deep you are until you stop and say

"Wait a second....."

So learn how to be more present in the here and now. Spend less time in Facebook, block people out. If a Jedi group is rehashing negative events, get the hell outta Dodge for a while. Take care of you FIRST. Saying there's too much information is saying you have little to no control how you receive it. Idk, I guess being a Capricorn helps...

Aye...I mentioned how to solve it. I was simply pointing out how easy it is to get overwhelmed by it As Jedi we "Focus on the present" and are "Mindful" of the now Even so, no one is perfect, and life will spin out of control every once in awhile. "Get back up."

Streen wrote:

Rickie wrote: The world is FILLED with TOO MUCH information!
What do you think?

I'd have to agree. It's a little hard to explain, though. In terms of the 24-hour news channels, I have to avoid them. It's like they try to make everyone terrified with every story they bring up. Fear mongering, in other words.

Life was a lot simpler, some 20 years ago. But I think the increase in information has been a good thing such as in technology. I'm thinking of medicine, primarily. Most other kinds of technology seem superfluous.

I don't know, I may be wrong.

Interesting point , might i add however coming from a medical point of view , it's great we have all this new medical technology which houses archives and archives of information which we can look at if we don't know or understand but it has taken away a lot from the basic "clinical eyeball".

What I mean is that we depend on monitors and our smart phones and computers a lot more than we used to, instead of using our clinical skills and knowledge we have had to learn the hard way. If we forget the basics and simple diagnostic skills that can be done without all this new technology
then if it all fails what are we left with.

As I teach to all my students , look at your patient not the monitor.

I think this can be applied to all sources of information, you can watch all the news you want and base your opinions on it , but unless you were there then can't you truly understand it , at the end of the day your just listening to someone else's point of view .



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Kitsu wrote: I find myself getting sucked into it for a time and my mood changes. I get more angry, more bitter, more tense and tight,

I was just thinking about this the other day...

My son is a great kid...

But, man, when he is playing video games, it affects his demeanor something aweful... :laugh:

A particular tough level gets him all moody, and he is a bit "short" with the wife and I.. Then I put him in 'check', and he responds, and it is the start of an ugly cycle, lol...

We catch it before the cycle gets going, but, back when he was way younger, I was too, and I would feed the fire for longer periods... I point out the "intimidation drama' (Celestine Prophecy) and he shuts down, along with myself, lol...

Jestor wrote:

Kitsu wrote: I find myself getting sucked into it for a time and my mood changes. I get more angry, more bitter, more tense and tight,

I was just thinking about this the other day...

My son is a great kid...

But, man, when he is playing video games, it affects his demeanor something aweful... :laugh:

A particular tough level gets him all moody, and he is a bit "short" with the wife and I.. Then I put him in 'check', and he responds, and it is the start of an ugly cycle, lol...

We catch it before the cycle gets going, but, back when he was way younger, I was too, and I would feed the fire for longer periods... I point out the "intimidation drama' (Celestine Prophecy) and he shuts down, along with myself, lol...

Yup! Sometimes you just don't even realize it until after the fact. That's how I am with Jedi Boards....At first the conversation started out as just a conversation....but then it gets heated....I get heated....everyone gets heated and eventually it just takes that one person to step back and say "Oh...wait."

Kitsu Tails wrote:

Jestor wrote:

Kitsu wrote: I find myself getting sucked into it for a time and my mood changes. I get more angry, more bitter, more tense and tight,

I was just thinking about this the other day...

My son is a great kid...

But, man, when he is playing video games, it affects his demeanor something aweful... :laugh:

A particular tough level gets him all moody, and he is a bit "short" with the wife and I.. Then I put him in 'check', and he responds, and it is the start of an ugly cycle, lol...

We catch it before the cycle gets going, but, back when he was way younger, I was too, and I would feed the fire for longer periods... I point out the "intimidation drama' (Celestine Prophecy) and he shuts down, along with myself, lol...

Yup! Sometimes you just don't even realize it until after the fact. That's how I am with Jedi Boards....At first the conversation started out as just a conversation....but then it gets heated....I get heated....everyone gets heated and eventually it just takes that one person to step back and say "Oh...wait."

Yes ma'am...

I have very little problem with the amount of information out there. What I do have a problem with is the way that it's displayed and consumed. The worst thing is the 24 hour news cycle. In theory that's not a bad thing. Think of all the stuff that happens in the world every day. 24 hours isn't enough to cover even a small fraction of it. But instead of covering a massive variety of world or even local news they find one or two major things, usually terribly tragic things, and talk about nothing but those for days, even weeks on end. It's depressing and can also lead to making a huge deal about something that most of us honestly don't care about, or wouldn't if it wasn't talked about by every news agency for a week straight.

In the end its all in how you choose to take in the information. I don't have cable so I can't watch annoying news channels. I tend to only read local news stories and even then I only check every other day or so. If something big enough happens I will find out within a day or so. I do check Facebook everyday, but I try to limit the people that I follow so that most of what I see are happy funny things. I'm on here every day. That's about it as far as news goes for me.

Now, the joy of the internet is the amount of learning we can do. I spend a lot of time reading science blogs, doing citizen science projects, learning other languages (rather unsuccessfully as I have little talent or drive for it lol), in discussion here, and all sorts of other stuff. We do have a world's worth of information at our fingertips but it's all in how we use it. The main part of that sentence should be "at our fingertips." That put's us in the driver's seat.

It's like fire, it can be utterly destructive or immensely helpful depending on how you use it.

I think that access to information, especially the right kind, can be a wonderful thing. I like to learn about all different kinds of things, and the internet is a very valuable tool for that. However, the information it provides is not just limited to facts and lessons. It contains an overwhelming amount of drama, opinions, negativity, and the like. I've seriously cut back my time on Facebook recently because much of what I see is negative opinions about other groups of people.

The news is bad enough itself recently, especially since we do have access to it every minute of the day, but looking at "the comments section" normally ends up with me being disturbed, saddened, depressed, and sometimes angry at the way people treat each other.

I guess it's like they say with anything else: "use responsibly"..

You are always in control of your information diet.

This is why, when others complain about there Facebook feeds, I am the first to point out that you can control them fairly strictly.

So really, if your getting too much, or toxic information, its your fault.

Information, should be controlled much like food.

Is it nutritious, or junk?

As Clay Johnson mentions below, you dont blame the food for obesity.

His book "The information diet" was greatly helpful to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A1LvXRnpVg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNFNOSzik14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVJ_TowMFGE