From the course: Cultivating Mental Agility
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Avoiding information paralysis
From the course: Cultivating Mental Agility
Avoiding information paralysis
- A major reason mentally agile professionals are so successful is they take in a wide range of ideas and information and then deploy them in the right circumstances. More reading, more conversations and more learning is awesome up to a point. But there can also be too much of a good thing if you never take action. Many of us may know professionals who fall into the trap of continually gathering information, but never seem to do anything with it. Here's how to avoid that paralysis, and instead, make good use of your hard fought knowledge. First, as you're setting your learning goals, it's useful to differentiate between general knowledge you'd like to acquire and specific technical skills. The former might include things like learning about trends in artificial intelligence or management research about how to be a better leader. The latter on the other hand might be learning how to do computer programming in a…
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