Information fast food: how to distinguish harmful from the useful reading

What is a fast food and how it is harmful

The food you eat has a huge impact on the performance of your body. Similarly, books and articles that you read, affect the efficiency of your brain.

We are more and more fill the heads of literary garbage, equivalent to fast food. You can hardly feel its negative impact on your mind in a day or even a week. Similarly, bad food is not just spoils the stomach. However, if you increase the exposure time to a month, a year or more, you will encounter a frightening reality.

You have to grow a whole belly ignorance.

If you are considering your brain as a library, focusing on three things:

• information that you accumulate in this library, its accuracy and importance;
• your ability to find and recover the necessary information in the memory;
• the ability to apply it when necessary.

There is no point to hold in mind a store of knowledge, if you can not find among its contents the right and put it into practice.

Information garbage in your mind like a drug. It relaxes your brain and allows for a short time to feel better. And the more you consume, the more you want - a vicious circle.

However, the brain will not spend. He understands that he does not need this crap. Dopamine levels in your body slightly raised, but not received anything useful to your library.

The price of this thoughtless consumption is very high - up for lost time.

To avoid falling into this trap, it is important to filter the information and understand it has already passed through any filters.

information distortion problems

Negative filters can be found everywhere. Nobody can abolish the effect of a broken phone.

Imagine a boss who is subject to six more levels of management. What is happening on the ground level, such as the interaction between a sales specialist buyer and usually passes through six filters. The probability that after this information will be accurate enough to make appropriate management decisions, is very small.

Head must recognize this and say its direct speakers: "I'm not sure that he had received from you the correct information." He will have to turn off the usual path and seek more detailed, relevant and objective information from people close to the problem.

Related to this is another difficulty. In search of wisdom and power quality information, we often turn to a short squeeze, torn out of context. It can be quotations, Summary, reviews, or links to specific books.

All these scraps of knowledge is very deceptive.

Of course, they can look smarter and feel more confident. But the problem is that these superficial knowledge can be cut as easily as turf, and there will be nothing standing under them.

Unfortunately, most people are accustomed to be content with this level. Therefore, we rarely get to that bear nonsense, if not fall on it. Our interlocutors are often no better than us. And sometimes they are simply afraid that they themselves will be caught in the same.

As a result, we confidently rely too much on these illusory knowledge when we are decisions. This often happens on a subconscious level. Variants of events varied results - grim.

How to determine what is worth reading

There is a simple principle that will help you figure out what to put in the library of his mind, but it is better to leave abroad. You need to skip all the information through two filters:

• time;
• details.

The first filter will show as much information tied to the present moment, as far as it is relevant. How long it will remain relevant: 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years? If in the near future it will be of no importance, you might want to immediately filter it.

One way to check whether the information will stand the test of time - is to assess its accuracy through the details.

Details - small, but extremely powerful vitamins needed for your reader's diet.

Learn the need for people knowledgeable in a particular area of ​​expertise. The best filter - a clever brain. Rely on information from someone who knows what he is talking.

To assess whether the person is competent, pay attention to the details of his story. Articles with shallow content sometimes deliberately made such that they understand the general public. However, most often the reason is different: their author has only superficial knowledge. If a person refers to various sources, it shows that he carefully filtered information that represents you.

99.9% "fastfudnyh" articles do not pass through these filters.

Remember that even a running situation with consumption of information can be corrected. Read more quality materials facing authorsAnd your information will improve the taste. So you get used to how to look real clean thoughts and will develop your internal filter to automatism. You will be at a glance to distinguish between low-quality fiction from the real wholesome food for the brain.