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Our world has exploded. Information is abundant.
We can have trouble separating the trivial from the important, and all this information processing makes us tired.
Neurons are living cells with a metabolism; they need oxygen and glucose to survive and when they’ve been working hard, we experience fatigue.
Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.
Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, a book by Daniel Levitin, has an interesting section on cognitive overload.
Highly successful people have many of the daily distractions of life handled for them, which allows them to better focus their attention.