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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 … Continue Reading

Anti-Procrastination Strategy #3 – Keep It Simple!

Think about it, do you like things to be overly complex?

Probably not, right? Even people who like challenges would be weighed down eventually by things which are overly complex.

Complexity decreases efficiency and more often than not encourages procrastination.  You might have heard of the term “paralysis by analysis”, which simply means that when you analyze too many factors, you get inundated and start procrastinating instead.

Further, complexity wastes a lot of your energy and drains you of whatever initial enthusiasm you might have.

Yes, Life is complex at times.  Problems are complex at times.  Choosing simplicity doesn’t mean denying reality.  It means … Continue Reading

Anti-Procrastination Strategy #1 – Take Charge of Your Attention!

STOP!

How did you end up here?  Something caught your attention?

You know what, mortal? I’ve successfully stolen a few seconds from your life.

Fortunately for you, reading this will be rewarding.

Because as you’re reading this, for once, you’re probably more aware of what you’re now reading.  Think about the myriad of content that competes for your attention everyday and everywhere, which you mindlessly indulge in.  Does it raise to your awareness how much time was possibly wasted?

One of the ironies today is that while we have … Continue Reading