Knowledge created by 2003 now gets generated online every 48 hours, but how we learn hasn't kept up. Jim Kwik calls this gap "information anxiety": drowning in podcasts and content with no way to actually retain it.
How many people listening feel like there's too much information and not a lot of time to go through it all, that we're drowning in information but we're starving for that practical wisdom? So the amount of information is doubling at dizzying speeds. I was doing a program at Google and I heard somebody say there that the chairman said that the amount of information that's been created from the dawn of humanity to the year 2003, just a couple decades ago, that amount of information now is created every 48 hours online. 48 hours. Wow, that's crazy. Crazy. Think about all the podcasts and all the social media and a lot of— That's insane to think about. Yeah, and so we're drowning in it. So the amount of information is doubling, but how we learn it and read it and retain it, that hasn't changed a whole lot. But that growing gap creates digital deluge, information anxiety.
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