The Irony of Being “Informed”
Being “well informed” & being “over informed” – There is a very fine line that divides the two. While the former may facilitate oneself, the latter may well become a deterrent.
This might sound strange considering the world that we live in today when information is always flowing – solicited or unsolicited.
What happens in the bargain is that, very often we tend to get “over-informed”. Most of this information lies in our “Circle of Concern” (Dr. Stephen Covey) and it infact starts taking us away from our “Circle of Influence”. Net result- we land up in a situation where we have tons of information which we can do nothing about.
Consider it carefully – is that info really required to be allowed in?
100 gm Zindagi 
Good to read your reflections after a while. Dear Manish, I appreciate your thought. However, the primary distinguishing characteristic of human life form is
Rationality and intelligence. We, I feel, are equipped to sift and process information. Reject the irrelevant while apply the needed as knowledge. The problematic phenomenon that you point out emanates from a closed-box restricted mental make up that modern day man is acclimatizing himself to. Receiving information per se can never be bad, the lacunae lie in how we accept and use it. What do you think, pal?
Spice
January 23, 2012 at 6:30 am