Digital Revolution: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Our final technological revolution is responsible for you being able to read these words. It’s all around us, and impacts our lives in countless ways. 

Much like the agricultural revolution gave abundant calories for our bodies, the digital revolution gives abundant information for our minds. 

And just like the quantity and quality of calories we consume greatly impacts our physical health, so the quantity and quality of information we consume shapes our mental health. 

The value of high quality information

Success requires hard work. But even more importantly, it requires the right work.

This is why the fortunes of people with similar backgrounds can vary so drastically. Several consecutive good or bad choices can make a huge difference over the span of an entire career. 

And the key to separating good and bad choices is access to high quality information. 

Getting the right information at the right time for making a series of great choices can really supercharge life. The right information is out there. It just needs to be found and applied. 

Excessive empty information

Information really is strikingly similar to food.

Healthy amounts of wisdom-rich information is great for you, while excessive low-quality information can cause all manner of problems. 

Unfortunately, our modern world gives ample opportunity to binge on excessive wisdom-free information. Indeed, the amount of zero- or even negative-value content on the internet is astounding. 

And just like empty calories, our primitive minds very easily get addicted to this endorphin-releasing empty information. 

It took decades to achieve decent levels of consumer awareness of the dangers of empty calories. I really hope this process will be faster for empty information. 

In nine days’ time, we’ll dedicate an entire week to this vital topic.