We live in the age of information. The more you have the better are your chances of survival. The information is power, and I was surprised at the fact that people paid me for the kind of information I had. Often times I have been praised for possessing knowledge, but I felt it was plain information. It was fascinating for me to see how people paid me for the stuff I knew. All I could thing was, hey I just read upon it and applied it here. This experience made me more voracious as a reader, and I started to suffer from the symptom of feeling inadequate if I did not know anything.
My poor little brain was suffering from information overload, the burden that one goes through if one is excessively trying to become a living encyclopedia. The sheer amount of information available today is enough to make anyone go nuts. It took me time to realize the fact that information and knowledge are different from each other. And when it comes to practical living, neither may matter as such as the wisdom that is required to apply whatever I know. So now I focus more of being aware and making wise decisions, rather than just collect information.
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