A few decades ago, people thought that more information would help folks make better decisions.
Now, we have more information freely available than anybody can even process, and nothing has changed.
So, more information wasn’t the answer.
This leads me to today’s topic.
What do you even do with the information you learn?
What does it bring you to know X?
How will you act upon it?
How will your quality of life improve when you know X?
Of course, there are practical things like cooking or improving your job-related skills that will improve your life.
But there’s also tons of other information.
Like learning that your drinking water might have some health risks, or there was yet another knife attack or riot, or the economy is down, or whatever.
Doesn’t even need to be that big.
When you go down the path of “the world has become so bad,” you’ll end up in the downward spiral.
As a result, you’ll be in the dark, focusing only on the negative things and not seeing the positive things around you anymore.
No place you wanna be.
But what else can you do?
Knowing isn’t enough because most of the time, we can not act on it, or it only slightly improves our lives.
There’s a huge chance that we could do other things instead that significantly improve our lives.
For example, changing your water source because of potential “drinking water quality risks” might slightly improve your life but is tiny in comparison to starting to work out or massively reducing the sweet or salty snacks.
The latter two will greatly improve your life, while the other is barely noticeable.
That brings me back to “What does it bring you to know X”?
Tough question.
I don’t have answers, but I realized that I should ask myself these questions more often because more information and the consequences of knowing don’t make my life or the life around me better.
Or does it?