Metadata
- Author: No Stupid Questions
- Full Title:: 220. Is Your Attention Span Shrinking?
- Category:: 🎙️Podcasts
- URL:: https://share.snipd.com/episode/d83430e4-aa5c-46de-86a4-927734d976d7
- Finished date:: 2024-11-20
Highlights
Information vs. Attention
- An abundance of information leads to a scarcity of attention.
- We must learn to allocate our limited attention effectively. Transcript: Angela Duckworth But anyway, here’s the quote from Herb Simon. In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else, a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that (Time 0:23:17)
Process Information
- Constant consumption without processing leads to information overload.
- Counteract this by dedicating time to process information through writing or reflection. Transcript: Mike Maughan When you’re constantly consuming, we’re never processing. I’ve been trying to just write more to process some of my own thinking (Time 0:27:37)