The internet has too much information available for me to process it properly. I skim articles here and there; blogs, editorials, critiques, reviews, and i find myself spending hours doing nothing! I'm engaging in all that i read but in a very superficial way.
As an individual i find myself overwhelmed with all the information. However, i think that i can address this issue. The interview itself didn't tell me something that i didn't already know. I've dealt with these feelings of being overwhelmed for a few years now and I've realised that i'm the only one who can make changes to my habits in order to feel relief from all of this.
The truth is that despite all the information around, my problem is one of commitment. I'm happy that i have the opportunity to explore so many things in such an easy and accessible manner. I'd rather have the options available for participating and discovering. I want all the perspectives, all the opinions and all the art out there to be available and findable. I just have to ask myself how i can better balance my inner self with this outer reality.
It seems to me that there are two ways of going about discovering the world:
-Either i try to skim all the information out there and form ideas of the world throught the superficial exploration of varied info, or
-I concentrate on one topic and really dig deep into it and deduce things about the world by the discoveries i make in that specific field
Of course things aren't so black and white and one can do a bit of both, but with all the information around it is easy getting lost and not really finding the time to dig deep into a specific topic. There are many choices out there and it's hard to choose one to focus on.
Sometimes a little leap of faith is all that's needed.
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