Information Overload and Creativity
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Mar 15, 2022
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Consuming but not innovating.
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The human brain 🧠 has been largely the same for thousands of years in terms of processing capacity as hardware evolution takes a very long time.
In last 20 years, information that human brain encounters on daily basis has probably grown by 1000x or even more.
This creates hardware processing issues for the human brain and from reading articles to summaries we just want to know headlines and make a conclusion.
This hyper concluding low capacity brain is extremely easy to manipulate as it has no intention to get into details. TLDR.
Kids born in information overload generation and natural ADHD compared to generations before. Smarter and dumber in different ways than the previous generation.
Marketing books and courses need to adapt and strategies for hyper concluding brain need to be thought again.
The brain needs information fasting few hours a day to connect the dots it has collected. Collected dots are useless without connections.