Information Overload

We are in a time where we “know” too much. The age of information is overwhelming. When you put too much information in, and don’t take time to digest it, it becomes toxic.

Some of the most brilliant people in the world, have understood that in order to optimize their lives, their creativity, the must limit the information they process everyday. These same people, like the creator of apple, are the people that make products to distract us and create a space for us to do the very thing they know it is best to avoid.

We’ve been told that information is power, but information alone is not real power. Information has the allure and illusion of power. It sounds good, it looks good on the outside, but internally lack substance and the quality of wholeness. We’ve all met the people who appear one way on social media and completely differently in person. This is the illusion of the information they think they know.

Real power is the ability to embody the information you think you know. Real Power is the ability to maintain inner peace in the midst of an outer storm. Real power is the capacity to walk with dignity and grace no matter how you are treated because you have not given your power away.

This is the cunumdrum most of us find ourselves in. We even have a saying, that its difficult for us to get it from our “head to our heart”.

We know things, but we don’t embody them.

We say know things, but we can’t figure out how to do them.

We say we know things and point the finger at others.

This is the essence of hypocrisy. To say, to intellectually know, to talk about information that others don’t have and judge them for it. What we are doing is judging ourselves.