How To Make Ignorance Your Superpower

The question is not how much you can keep in mind at the same time, but how much you can suppress at the same time.

It is said that we can only keep about seven pieces of information in our heads at any one time and work with them. Maybe there are three or four more or less, but anyway, our memory is limited.

So if we divide our energy and attention between two activities, only half of our power is available for each task.

In our everyday life, however, not only two things tug at our

attention, but dozens and sometimes even hundreds.

Every email, every push notification, every headline, and every open browser tab nibbles at our attention and shreds it.

How you can defend your attention against the daily flood of information, you can read in my article Why you have to ignore almost everything to succeed.

René Junge a published author writing on ILLUMINATION.