A short conversational YouTube video (transcript) in which Lori Harder discusses how consuming lots of information can increase overwhelm, and recommends adopting an observer stance and filtering content by asking whether it’s needed now or can wait. The piece emphasizes practical prioritization to reduce anxiety around trying to do everything at once.
Sometimes the more you learn, the more overwhelmed you can actually get. It's kind of like a mastermind. Like, Chris and I actually talk about this whenever we have any event or whenever we have a mastermind. We'll stand on stage and be like, this is going to feel like a fire hose of information. Probably. Like when sometimes people my podcast or your podcast, I think it's so important to, like, step back from the information, listen to it from an observer point and just constantly look at it from the lens of Do I feel like I need that now or is this for later? And that on its own has helped me because to an anxious person, going into a room or reading a ton of tools without that lens is like, I should be doing all the things, oh, she's meditating this much or that. Or, oh, my God, maybe I should walk now. Maybe Pilates is it.
Maybe this is that. Maybe this food.
Let's run it through the lens of does this feel like it's for me right now?
