How to deal with information overload
Work And Study Productivity / / December 23, 2019
More recently, find information was much more difficult than to enter keywords in the search box. Now the problem is more in the other - in redundancy of information that falls on us. Let's try to figure out how to reduce the pressure of the information field for their own well-being.
The first thing is to find cause of the overload. In fact, many without knowing it create tension at least the same test-mail 10 times a day. Consider your day, do less what to do rarely possible and necessary.
Get familiar with your email. Again, check your mail often just not worth it, but for those who are tied to it, in any case it is necessary to determine the intervals that do not cost too short. It is unlikely that even checking loaded and used to its fullest box often than once in half an hour, it makes sense. During that half-hour before the notification you just have time to do one and indivisible piece of work, or one "tomatoesยป. Abhijeet recommends even find a mate, if you receive more than 50 emails per day. But it just depends on how much work they will bring, in my opinion.
RSS feeds. A very convenient way to get information, which is to save time. In fact it turned into a swallow, who spends your time and effort. What to do? Please rate the importance of the tapes. Regardless of the client, you probably will be able to order the tape so that at first only see those that are, and should in the first place to look. In Google Reader, you also can view your reading stats and realize that you can safely delete. I would recommend (and do so myself) to analyze these statistics regularly.
Time-boxing - There is nothing new under the sun. It is easy to get carried away and spend far more than you expect to communicate on Twitter, or you must be like material on Youtube. Always necessary to put the frame. Some appliances (Pomodoro) Is directly tied to the time, while others involve some self-discipline. I myself when planning your day always break time on the half-hour blocks, five minutes from where I try to spend on "cooling" and the rest, just as described in "tomato"Planning. I find this mode of operation is extremely effective and effortless, oddly enough.
Eliminate the notion of "promptness" itself. It is not necessary to interrupt the really important for your goals and your life task to consider something that another person, not you, consider requiring no delay. If this is not the siren of fire or air raid - you can always finish the current task (piece). Do not even try to review the information that appears in you. Turn off notification. You'll find out later.
It is impossible to grasp the immensityAs said Kozma rods. Do not try to know everything. Make sure that you really matter and where information about the reliable and comfortable filed. Eliminate the junk that you do not use it just to RSS and Google Reader, but think about how to do a similar analysis for the TV and the newspapers, if you see them and read.
Six Smart Ways To Beat Information Overload [Abhijeet Mukherjee]