Input/Output
Whether it is the Pareto Principle or an excerpt from Atomic Habits or a clip of David Goggins, they all inherently share the core idea of Input & Output.
We as a generation consume much more information than our ancestors ever did. We wake up to emails, carry on-to To-do lists, scroll through 4 insta notifications, check the quickest Quick-Commerce app for milk, compare prices of 3 different cab vendors, and then finally it’s 9am.
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During a recent conversation with a friend, we discussed how information overdose often leads to poor decisions. How startup founders want to mitigate stress by distributing decision making throughout the founder's office, how CEOs refrain from taking decisions after 6, how athletes rely on same-old-boring routines and not new meal recipes every day.
Maybe having an abundance of 10 second reels was never a good idea, maybe having too many food choices which deliver in 20 minutes was never the healthy way of life, maybe connecting with 1000 different followers on Insta was never really about connection, maybe the 200 matches on Hinge would've been better if they were only 4.
Analysis paralysis is a thing, so the next time you feel drained, alongside blaming Team notifications and Gurgaon traffic, try to dissect your screen time between consuming content, and your time creating content.
Because what is consuming motivational reels without actually doing something about it? it is like consuming creatine without exercising — Simply unhealthy.
An average adult human brain has the ability to store the equivalent of 2.5 million gigabytes of digital memory. Thats 74GB of data/day (or in Indian terms, equivalent to 900rs of Airtel data pack/day).
I am not a CS grad, but I do believe your phone gets slow the more data you keep on it, so 3GB an hour, 74GB a day, 2,220GB a month or 26,640GB a year.
Try calculating how packed your Brain-Drive really is, and how creating something instead of consuming might make it boot a tad bit faster.
All in all, this article freed up almost 9GB for me ;)
