Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Selective Ignorance

I am busy reading 'The 4-hour work week' by Tim Ferriss.

This is definitely a case of use some, but realistically not all, of what he says. This guy takes focus to a new level. In defining happiness by excitement or the opposite of boredom, he cut down his working hours to the bear minimum cutting out the unimportant and using various other techniques to get to the point where he quite literally checks his email once a week for an hour. The balance of his time gets spent on his passions, to which he applies the same vigour, so it seems he manages to fit hundreds of lifetimes into one.

One of the efficiency techniques he talks of is cultivating 'Selective Ignorance'. There is so much information out there now days and it is in the main readily available, so the problem now is not so much in finding important information, but trying to ignore most of the information you find out there.

With facebook, email, blogs, newspapers, television, books, magazines, radio, twitter, wikipedia, etc. etc. out there, what do you choose to listen to and what do you just ignore? Trying to keep up to date on everything likely just means you won't be an expert on anything?

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