Information Overload and What It Does to Your Brain

In this episode, Paul dives into the impact technology and the internet has on our brains. If you look at the data and the neuroscience behind technology use, we encounter around 4000-10000 ads per day and the media-rich content we consume overwhelms our brain. Back in 2012, a study found that we were consuming around 63 gigabytes a day. Fast forward 10 years and that number is likely to have increased. "Rich media" is overloading our brains. We were made to learn thimble by thimble, not by drinking out of the water hose of modern media. Our cognitive abilities were not made to handle the overstimulation of our brain.

The Beautiful Mess | Episode 12

🎒 RESOURCES
What The Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

✅ Follow The Beautiful Mess

➡️ You can also follow me here:

#informationoverload #podcast #neuroscience #whatinformationoverloaddoestoyourbrain #tbmshow #internetsideeffects #whattheinternetdoestoourbrains

[thebeautifulmessshow]

Do you feel overwhelmed by your media consumption?

[stargazeronesixseven]

🙏 Thank You So Much Beautiful Mess for educating us about how to handle Information Overload in our internet World! 🌍 Yes, always seek the Official News or Data & Quality vs Quantity! When have the time, then only go into other more time consuming but not neccessary productive information searches! Time is the most Expensive Resources, we all have only 24 hours in a day! 🕯🌷🌿🌍💖🕊

[aenaakmal]

Thanks for this video buddy, we really need such topics to be covered discussed more. You did a great job educating and awaring us!

[criddyla]

This is a brilliant video, the fact is you have the key to society here, we are all overwhelmed with information today and know almost nothing, thank you sir for this content.

[yaz]

Even worse now 2024
We use "shorts"

[jasonshaw]

Great discussion with multiple researched examples to back it up. I'm going to assume the camera focus glitch was an intentional example of how the Internet (the fern) is distracting us from the things we should be focusing on (the speaker) 😊

[TheColossalBlanket]

I found this because I feel absolutely brain dead from too much Internet. I kind of struggle with it. I'm gonna check out some of your book recommendations.