Are you on the verge of a nervous breakdown?

Information Overload

is a very REAL and very SERIOUS problem in today’s world. Quite honestly, the score of last nights Yankee’s game, and their current standing (which right now isn’t very good) is the only thing I really care to know on a daily basis, outside of the welfare of my wife and kids. I do carry a blackberry, however, it is more as a means to keep in touch with friends than it is for business associates, I let most calls go to voice mail. If the person calling doesn’t leave a message, I guarantee what they were calling me about wasn’t very important, therefore, I don’t really care to have them interrupt my time. I do my best to avoid news papers, and don’t really have a clue what is going on in the elections right now. Sometime days before the elections I will likely look for a summary of everything and base my voting decision on that information.
I have worked on training the people around me on what is important and what is not important, at least according to them, honestly, if it is important to them, it doesn’t make it important to me. I am often blamed for “tuning people out”, I do it a lot.

Here is a video of Timothy Ferris, Author of The 4-Hour Workweek talking about information overload, and some technique to get away from information overload, he expands greatly on this technique in his book The 4-Hour Workweek