Infophobia

Have you ever been in a conversation with someone and you hear those words, "Do you know...?" The moment that you hear that your heart begins to race and a sense of uneasiness comes over you. 


In a world that is out of control with information and its immediate availability we often try to "keep up." Yet there are moments when somebody says, "do you know?" and panic grips you.


Infophobia. That's your problem, and its in epidemic proportions in our culture. The symptoms are painfully obvious. There is the sense of being incompletely informed. There is the feeling of being completely uninformed. And there is the symptom of "knowing a little about everything and not a lot of anything."


All three are dangerous.


Here is the piece that no one wants to talk about. We will never catch up with the increasing glut of information exponentially increasing every day. It is interesting in a time when we can acquire more and more we are going to have to eventually resign ourselves to knowing less and less. 


That is not a bad thing. The question is, what are you doing with what you know?


Douglas Coupland, a Canadian author of postmodern stories, writes in J-Pod, "I think people in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless." 


Hey, why wait to 2020, get a head start on it now. Stop trying to gain more and more information and start trying to master what you already know.  

I am not suggesting that you stop learning. But I am thinking what life would be like if I started using what I already know.

I know it sounds like I am clueless but try it. Hey, you never know what'll happen. And, by the way, its OK to not know everything. After all, nobody likes a "know it all."  Know what I mean?