Comments on: Overcoming Information Addiction http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/ Open Source Personal Development Thu, 17 May 2012 09:55:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/comment-page-2/#comment-35757 Tim Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:53:43 +0000 http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/#comment-35757 Brad, why have you stopped adding to 30sleeps? Have i missed the whereabouts of your next life expedition? I still go back and re-read articles you have posted. They are great inspiration. PLEASE get back and keep writing...or at least, let us know what else is taking up your time(or that your alive!). Thanks, -Tim Brad, why have you stopped adding to 30sleeps? Have i missed the whereabouts of your next life expedition? I still go back and re-read articles you have posted. They are great inspiration. PLEASE get back and keep writing…or at least, let us know what else is taking up your time(or that your alive!).
Thanks,
-Tim

]]> By: Tracy http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/comment-page-2/#comment-35445 Tracy Sun, 27 Nov 2011 06:47:36 +0000 http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/#comment-35445 Thanks for this article. I'm drowning myself in information addiction right now. I too am a blogger for a living so I have to spend quite a bit of time on the internet. But lately it's just been sliding into this ridiculousness that is wasting my life and not getting me further ahead to my goals. Heck I'm wasting time as we speak reading this post and replying to it! This didn't use to be so much of a problem. Part of it is fear - my blog is becoming more successful every day and there is this fear that it's all going to come crashing down around me. I wake up anxious, onto my computer the second I wake up. I'm nervous until I see my inbox and I see that it's all okay. It's all okay. The problem is that my boyfriend and I have moved to Australia (where he's from) for 4 or 5 months in order to lay low and pay off debt. So I don't know anyone, and have no money to spend on other interests. Sure I work out and go for walks, and spend time with my boyfriend (if you could call it that since he's addicted too and a lot of the time we're glued to our own individual computers screens, eroding our relationship), but that only eats up so much of the day. I'd rather learn something on the internet than watch TV, so that is what I do. But as time goes on, the more I just want to idly surf the web and gather information instead of actually doing work and things that will get me ahead (like writing blog posts or whatever else). My surfing is usually tied into my niche, so I justify it that way, but it'd probably be more useful if I actually turned the info into a blog post instead of letting it go in and out of my attention span like a flash in the pan. I've started realizing what a problem this is because I can't seem to do anything else now without absolutely itching to get back to my computer and surf for idle information. I literally do feel addicted. It's scary. Seriously - thanks for the post. Thanks for this article. I’m drowning myself in information addiction right now.

I too am a blogger for a living so I have to spend quite a bit of time on the internet. But lately it’s just been sliding into this ridiculousness that is wasting my life and not getting me further ahead to my goals. Heck I’m wasting time as we speak reading this post and replying to it!

This didn’t use to be so much of a problem. Part of it is fear – my blog is becoming more successful every day and there is this fear that it’s all going to come crashing down around me. I wake up anxious, onto my computer the second I wake up. I’m nervous until I see my inbox and I see that it’s all okay. It’s all okay.

The problem is that my boyfriend and I have moved to Australia (where he’s from) for 4 or 5 months in order to lay low and pay off debt. So I don’t know anyone, and have no money to spend on other interests. Sure I work out and go for walks, and spend time with my boyfriend (if you could call it that since he’s addicted too and a lot of the time we’re glued to our own individual computers screens, eroding our relationship), but that only eats up so much of the day. I’d rather learn something on the internet than watch TV, so that is what I do.

But as time goes on, the more I just want to idly surf the web and gather information instead of actually doing work and things that will get me ahead (like writing blog posts or whatever else). My surfing is usually tied into my niche, so I justify it that way, but it’d probably be more useful if I actually turned the info into a blog post instead of letting it go in and out of my attention span like a flash in the pan.

I’ve started realizing what a problem this is because I can’t seem to do anything else now without absolutely itching to get back to my computer and surf for idle information. I literally do feel addicted. It’s scary.

Seriously – thanks for the post.

]]> By: John http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/comment-page-2/#comment-34681 John Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:16:16 +0000 http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/#comment-34681 This blog is very addicting just as self-help subject itself. This blog is very addicting just as self-help subject itself.

]]> By: flights http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/comment-page-2/#comment-30451 flights Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:16:16 +0000 http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/#comment-30451 I can't live a day without checking my facebook account! I can’t live a day without checking my facebook account!

]]> By: Nori C. http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/comment-page-2/#comment-29422 Nori C. Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:28:31 +0000 http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/#comment-29422 Can I use that picture for my literary magazine? Please? Can I use that picture for my literary magazine? Please?

]]> By: JapaneseBuddhism http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/comment-page-2/#comment-24529 JapaneseBuddhism Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:23:10 +0000 http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/#comment-24529 Addictions take many forms. Some are very damaging and socially shunned upon. Others, like work, are socially glamorized. They are not less damaging to the individuals and their families. The first step is always to recognize the problem. I can say that I have 3 addictions. Moderate ones but still. Addictions take many forms. Some are very damaging and socially shunned upon. Others, like work, are socially glamorized. They are not less damaging to the individuals and their families.

The first step is always to recognize the problem.

I can say that I have 3 addictions. Moderate ones but still.

]]> By: sandrar http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/comment-page-2/#comment-12647 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:12:30 +0000 http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/#comment-12647 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> By: Comfort 2 Growth » C2G Challenge: Ending Information Addiction http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/comment-page-2/#comment-11925 Comfort 2 Growth » C2G Challenge: Ending Information Addiction Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:21:50 +0000 http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/#comment-11925 [...] The internet is the single biggest waste of my time, followed closely by TV, and I am going to do something about. This idea was inspired by the book 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris, and the blog 30 sleeps. [...] [...] The internet is the single biggest waste of my time, followed closely by TV, and I am going to do something about. This idea was inspired by the book 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris, and the blog 30 sleeps. [...]

]]> By: Ryan Steezy http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/comment-page-2/#comment-9844 Ryan Steezy Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:20:45 +0000 http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/#comment-9844 this article was great! information is like food, if you eat junk non-stop you'll die an early death and have regrets. this article was great! information is like food, if you eat junk non-stop you’ll die an early death and have regrets.

]]> By: Mae http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/comment-page-2/#comment-4415 Mae Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:11:22 +0000 http://30sleeps.com/blog/2008/01/31/dealing-with-information-overload/#comment-4415 "The distraction began with TV and, as my brain started getting accustomed to idleness, snowballed into other non-activities. Before I knew it, I was spending entire days swinging from one vine of useless information to another." That makes me laugh...I am often aimlessly swinging from vine to vine, and then I look at the clock and feel remorse. “The distraction began with TV and, as my brain started getting accustomed to idleness, snowballed into other non-activities. Before I knew it, I was spending entire days swinging from one vine of useless information to another.”

That makes me laugh…I am often aimlessly swinging from vine to vine, and then I look at the clock and feel remorse.

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