Most people are drowning in information, but starving for wisdom.
“Half-life” means the time it takes for a quantity of a substance to reduce to half of it’s initial value. In other words, the amount of time for half of it to be gone.
What do you read, listen to and watch?
What is the half-life of that information? Low-value information is that which is not important tomorrow. Some people listen to and watch things that have zero value (or even negative value) tomorrow. The half-life is hours.
High-value information lasts much longer. Successful people pay attention to things that will matter tomorrow, and next week, and next year. They learn things that other things (learning, understanding) can be built on.
If I learn something that is timeless to be a better leader or have a better business, that is a great use of my time.
On Think Daily, I try to write about things that have enduring value.
What is the half-life of what you pay attention to each day?
I am guilty of consuming way to much low half-life information. This blog post is timely, as I was just considering what my plan should be to limit the intake of this information.
I have motoced my retention of information seems to be lower. I assumed this was a welcome to my mid forties, but I think it’s mainly due to this age of endless information and content is saturating me.