Just a quick one here...
We're all aware of information overload. Nary a day goes by when we aren't warned by a well meaning news article or a stern report on the news about the dangers of information overload, smartphone addiction, overuse of social media. This isn't really about the supposedly detrimental effects of information overload (though the effects, for example, on productivity and decision making skills are showing to be dire, if said reports and articles are to be believed). It's more about, well, what happens to this information? Sure, some of it is used to make very necessary decisions about our day to day life, and in some cases, large life decisions that warrant a little research and analysis. A lot of the information is surely stored, sorted in our subconscious, to affect us at a later day in ways that we will probably never realise and will certainly never be able to articulate. But with all the information going in, what actually comes out? I would have thought that for all that's absorbed, our brains must require some sort of product (a sort of bizarre version of 'what goes up must come down'.... what comes in must go out?). For me, it's writing this blog. This is the thing that I 'create' rather than absorb. With all the changes coming up in my life, I think it's important to have that sort of an outlet where I can actually make something. For others, it's baking or crafting or singing, but I can't do any of those things (well, I can, but the by products aren't really anything I am yet to reveal to the world).
So, the question is, what do you create? What, if anything, is your output back into the world that wants to stuff you full of information?
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