My Weird Realization About Info Overload

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It's been a long time since I've shot a basketball. I loved basketball when I was younger and years ago in college when I had the time.

I'm the typical white man can't jump. I really can't right now because I've had an ongoing foot problem for the past year that's finally getting better but I really can't jump.

The NBA Playoffs are happening right now and they are as good as it gets even though my Knicks are finally back to relevancy but they lost right away.

So I've watched some basketball and have checked out some video highlights as well. Since the weather has been nice I've gone outside and shot around a bit. No problems there right? Fairly simple stuff.

Looking back on it when I first started learning about internet marketing and selling things online I read for what seems like 3 years straight and barely acted on anything. I know many others are in this situation as well.

I read, read, read and talked about marketing non stop but didn't do much. And while I knew I had a problem I made it seem like it was okay because I was learning about something. Even though I had no real results and wasn't making much progress at all. After a while it became really frustrating.

But if I was to read, read, read and talk about basketball and never shoot a ball that would seem so strange. In fact it seems really strange when I was outside thinking about it.

So what I'm trying to get at is if you're in that information overload stage try and compare it to something else to begin to break the habit.

Would you read about walking all the time but never try walking?

Would you read about driving a car all the time but never drive?

Would you think about buying food but never actually go to buy any? (Of course not because you would put yourself in a serious life and death situation)

Take a look at what you're doing right now and compare it to something like I've mentioned.

Perhaps this is easy for me to say now because I've broken though but I had to start somewhere and maybe this the start for you.

Changing a problem as the say begins when you realize you have a problem.

Take a look at what you're doing now, apply my thinking to it and just maybe it'll help you breakthrough.

Thoughts?

Enjoy,
Brandon
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  • Profile picture of the author Phil Halloran
    Thanks for the input. I valued your post.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brandon Modrov
    Thanks Phil for taking a look and commenting.

    Have you gone through that information overload stage at all?

    If so what helped you?
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    • Profile picture of the author Warrior AllStars
      Originally Posted by Brandon Modrov View Post

      Have you gone through that information overload stage at all?

      If so what helped you?
      My turn to answer that one?

      My information overload started in College. Now I do around 40 hours of research alone, per week - then I get to freaking type too, LOL. crap.

      Then I started to get up in years and decided that unless I wanted to learn a career of dumpster diving for a living, I was going to have to learn technology...well that's not really happening, but I did have to learn how to network, how to build products, how to keep the damned viruses off my computer, how to.....well, anything I touched on here.

      Fortunately, when I was in college I was taking up to 28 credits per semester - reading books as fast as I could skim through them, remembering it because I didn't have time to go back and look for stuff again, then composing and writing around 100 pages a week. I spent the whole time on information overload.

      I was so overloaded that I started smoking pot just so the wheels would quit cranking enough for me to sleep. Dreaming was a gas. Know what I did in my dreams? I solved the problems that I didn't have time to work out while I was conscious.

      You will NEVER know everything you need to know in this business. Never in this lifetime at least. You HAVE to learn to use information overload to your own advantage. Just dive into what you want to do and start learning about every step you have to make, then take that step and pick up your information intake again to complete the next step. If you get lucky .... and very wise, you will start by learning everything there is to networking.
      That's where to start - Networking. From there you will glean your next steps and the next field of information you need to suck up, analyze, synthesize and spit out in a form that is conducive to your financial survival and your sanity.

      Have a good day...........

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      • Profile picture of the author Brandon Modrov
        Originally Posted by Warrior AllStars View Post

        You will NEVER know everything you need to know in this business. Never in this lifetime at least. You HAVE to learn to use information overload to your own advantage. Just dive into what you want to do and start learning about every step you have to make, then take that step and pick up your information intake again to complete the next step. If you get lucky .... and very wise, you will start by learning everything there is to networking.
        That's where to start -
        That's so true.

        Also it's great what you're doing here with the Saving KimW Program.

        - Brandon
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  • Profile picture of the author Phil Halloran
    I hope that I do not ever go through information overload, I'm pretty assured of my ability to dissect information. I have a very hectic mind however and I get easily frustrated with the amounts of thoughts that go through my head on a daily basis. I need to learn how to take it easy when those moments occur
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    • Profile picture of the author Brandon Modrov
      Originally Posted by Phil Halloran View Post

      I hope that I do not ever go through information overload, I'm pretty assured of my ability to dissect information. I have a very hectic mind however and I get easily frustrated with the amounts of thoughts that go through my head on a daily basis. I need to learn how to take it easy when those moments occur
      Well said Phil

      BlogginPro,

      Great approach for sure and you might be in the majority. OR those that have your approach are busy doing stuff vs. thinking about it lol.

      I have changed a lot from then to now and I try to be a more of what you said.

      Jump right in.

      I've been actively thinking about and working on shorting the time from research to implementation like you said. I've gotten much better over the years but still need to work on it just like everything else.

      - Brandon
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  • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
    Originally Posted by Brandon Modrov View Post

    Looking back on it when I first started learning about internet marketing and selling things online I read for what seems like 3 years straight and barely acted on anything. I know many others are in this situation as well.
    Thankfully I did things backwards, which I think kept the feelings of information overload to a minimum. When I started I just went and bought a domain in a niche I was interested in and started building.

    When I ran into a problem I would come here (or elesewhere) and find the solution to my problem. I didn't pay for anything though, I had to find the solution for FREE.

    Doing this, I think, allowed me to learn "on the job" and make those mistakes every sales letter tries to sway you from making.

    Even today when I want to learn something new I just dive in and go for it. When I run into a problem I still come here and find the answer to my problem.

    There is nothing wrong with doing research for your next project, but you need to learn to move from the research phase and into the implementation phase.

    Often I think beginners are put off because implementing what you are reading takes money. For me personally I love diving into something new. Sometimes it costs me, but for the most part I come out making a profit in the end.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yogini
    Hey Brandon,

    I think that is a good post about how it's easier to keep looking for more information rather than acting on it. In the 4 hour a week book by Tim Ferriss he speaks about how the more information we take in, the less we produce. I've been trying each day to now focus on what I'm producing- start the day first writing pages of my ebook, writing articles and submitting them etc. This should be the most important part of the day rather than trying to keep absorbing more information each day.

    Also, as a therapist, I have a few clients that have problems with clutter. It turns out they both have several books on dealing with clutter and it is easier to just read them than to apply it. I think sometimes we feel more expanded by reading and taking in information vs applying it, which seems more tedious.

    Debbie
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