How to Focus on What Matters

Jurgen Wolff

One of the biggest problems that plagues creative people, who are naturally curious and tend to seek and take in lots of ideas, is information overload. It is very easy to be overwhelmed by all the input that comes from television, radio, magazines, newspapers, and especially the Internet. Learning how to deal with what seems to be an ever-increasing flood is vital if you are to focus your effort where it will have most value.

You Are Receiving Evermore Information

In 1990, information architect Richard Saul Wurman wrote a book called Information Anxiety. His central point was that we are inundated with information. The striking example he cited is that a weekday edition of The New York Times contains ...