The Solution to All Your Problems : Keep Learning!
Those who study large scale information databases, i.e. those in the terabyte (1012) to the petabyte (1015) range, suggest that information in the global intellectual inventory is now doubling as fast as every nine months. This rate of information doubling was supposedly every three years in the late 1990s while in the immediate post World War II period information doubling required decades.
Source : The Basics of Satellite Communications By Joseph N. Pelton
Today, the rate of information growth is doubling very quickly, as fast as every nine months in some fields.
What this means is that if you studied 10 textbooks in 9 months, by the time you’re done with that pile, you’d realize you’ve another pile of 10 textbooks waiting for you to dive into again. 
You can see it for yourself. Everyday, new discoveries are being made, new products being pushed to the market, new problems, new solutions keep coming up.
Some people get inundated by all this but it’s inevitable and at the same time necessary for the human race.
You see, in whatever decisions that we make, we seek to minimize uncertainties and in the process, reduce risk. In doing so, we need more qualified information. The better information we get, the better our decision will be.
The abundance of information is also one of the reasons we see more successful people these days – because many of us have easy access to quality information. If you’re starting a new business, there are tons of good books on entrepreneurship, business processes, sales and marketing, etc. Many of those books document the blueprints of successful role models who have been there, conquered that. If you’re learning to be an excellent programmer, there are vast numbers of free resources for you to learn and master almost any type of programming language.
Unless you’re a martian, almost any problem that you’re facing must have been solved by someone else or it could solved by combining and/or improving existing solutions.
So, it is important that you turn your attention towards educating yourself instead of being a TV addict or a game addict, unless that’s primarily what your life is about.
Once you agree that we need to continually learn and take in more information, you might also realize that it is easy to get inundated by the mass of information available out there. Also, there’re tons of attention grabbing information out there, most of which might not be what you need.
The solution is to be selective. Be very selective of what information you are looking out for in your life. Just as you (should) have specific goals and plans for your life, you should be specific about the information you want to gain.
If you know that your goal is to run a successful business, you should look out for information sources that teach you how to do so. At the onset, you might still be confused, given the large number of choices – here’s the strategy, choose the most reputable ones to learn from e.g. for running a small business, you will find The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber very useful. Or, if you’ve been struggling to achieve success but found that time and again, you keep getting knocked to the ground because of the lack of clarity or the right mindset, you need guidance to sort yourself out internally first – in this case, check out Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny by Adam Khoo.
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein
The key is this, we need information to increase our level of thinking in order to move on to the next level in life. Once you know what new information you need to learn, your task is to absorb it as quickly as you can and start taking action.
Start learning!