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Combating Information Overload
I am writing this article from a young man's perspective who is just working in a private company with a low salary. Now, he is looking for money-making ideas. Google is just flooding his social media accounts, apps, YouTube, etc. with money-making ideas. Now, this is his necessity to shift to a position of comfort. And if he can, then it means career growth has happened. Now, in that case, the most important problem one faces is the OVERLOADING OF INFORMATION. Because of that, one remains engrossed by information and is not able to decide when and where to start?
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Suppose he wants to work towards digital marketing as a digital marketeer. By doing research on the various websites, by watching videos on the internet, by following some YouTubers etc. he has decided to go for digital marketing. Next moment, some digital gurus or trainers pop-ups on his smartphone or laptop screen and say "How to start a profitable digital advertising agency? " Now, if he keeps on watching it and decided to go for this also. Hey! This is what is the point of "information overload". See every human being has a niche to showcase his potential and if it's digital then your niche must be digital. But in the digital world, you are frequently shot at by dozens of information which is called information overload. I am sharing here a few important points to protect yourself from this overloading:
Deciding your areas
The first important thing is to decide your own area of interests. At least three ways, you choose, which you want to do lifelong. Two will be your backup plans. At any cost, you will not change your mind to do things other than these three. See, how much you can visualize is your own capacity. The more proper assessment you can make is more useful for you in the long run. So, by now you have decided your top three priority career areas where you want to work.
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Selection of digital gurus/coaches
Here, you can apply two ways:
1. Specific guru/trainers
You will find some gurus/trainers that 100% match your mental state. It's like what you want is what they want. But they are ahead of you as they had started their digital career some years earlier than you. So, select three such gurus for those three areas of you. Subscribe them from all sides possible and don't deviate to other gurus at any cost.
2. Extracting the required from random gurus/trainers.
Every time you follow a new guru, just check whether it is linked to your areas. If becoming an entrepreneur is your dream. How much or in what respect he or she is influencing your path. In this way, you extract the required things from them. Here the focus is not on the gurus but on your area of interests, the areas you see your career. So, take the best from each guru or trainer every time they pop up on your smart device screen.
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3. Make a time slot.
Depending upon your convenience you will give one hour daily towards listening to your digital gurus or trainers. Apart from that, you will not waste a single second to watch any digital gurus or trainers.
4. Stop saving
Now and often, we develop a habit of saving the relevant content on Facebook, YouTube, keep notes, etc. with the hope of watching those later. Just ask yourself! Are you able to watch it properly? Your busy schedule won't allow you that. So, simply avoid this habit. Because whatever you want, any search engine will place in front of you the best matches.
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Just take a break every 45 minutes or an hour and start to daydream about anything. Before that try to empty your brain from all these kinds of stuff like tweets and texts, emails, limitless streaming of Facebook articles, viral videos, news etc.
So guys, I wrap up here and especially the students who get trapped in this information overload while searching for the best courses must also take this issue of combating information overload seriously.