Comments on: Increasing Your Signal-To-Noise Ratio http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html Tools to improve your mind and escape the trap Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:47:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Personal Development Favorites for November 24, 2009 http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html/comment-page-1#comment-34124 Personal Development Favorites for November 24, 2009 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:54:54 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=1945#comment-34124 [...] Increasing Your Signal-To-Noise Ratio over at Rat Race Trap [...] [...] Increasing Your Signal-To-Noise Ratio over at Rat Race Trap [...]

]]> By: Robin Easton http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html/comment-page-1#comment-12722 Robin Easton Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:44:49 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=1945#comment-12722 Hi Stephen, I left a comment here yesterday, but somehow it hasn't gone through. Weird. I just wanted to say that this post is FANTASTIC. This is all such good and much needed advice. The internet is just too dang big and I can't and don't want to take it all it all in. AND it can if I let it detract from my own inner stillness where my OWN unique perspective lives. And it can if we let it, take us away from ourselve and living a very real life. I refuse to let that happen. So good to see an article about this. It's something I think about everyday. Although more and more I just don't watch, don't read, don't respond, don't.... because the bottom line is I can NOT do it all. And I can either watch, read, respond to everything that comes my way or I can do only what is best for me and my work and then go for a hike which is good for my peace of my mind and my body and spirit. I need that hike. It may sound selfish but I think in this day and age there are some real areas we NEED to be selfish. Or another way of saying it is: we need to take care of ourselves in this way. Thank you my friend. Robin .-= Robin Easton´s last blog ..<a href="http://nakedineden.com/nakedinedenblog/death-as-an-adviser/" rel="nofollow">Death as an Adviser</a> =-. Hi Stephen,

I left a comment here yesterday, but somehow it hasn’t gone through. Weird.

I just wanted to say that this post is FANTASTIC. This is all such good and much needed advice. The internet is just too dang big and I can’t and don’t want to take it all it all in. AND it can if I let it detract from my own inner stillness where my OWN unique perspective lives. And it can if we let it, take us away from ourselve and living a very real life. I refuse to let that happen.

So good to see an article about this. It’s something I think about everyday. Although more and more I just don’t watch, don’t read, don’t respond, don’t…. because the bottom line is I can NOT do it all. And I can either watch, read, respond to everything that comes my way or I can do only what is best for me and my work and then go for a hike which is good for my peace of my mind and my body and spirit. I need that hike. It may sound selfish but I think in this day and age there are some real areas we NEED to be selfish. Or another way of saying it is: we need to take care of ourselves in this way. Thank you my friend. Robin
.-= Robin Easton´s last blog ..Death as an Adviser =-.

]]> By: How To Stick To Your Goals During The Holidays http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html/comment-page-1#comment-12682 How To Stick To Your Goals During The Holidays Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:42:55 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=1945#comment-12682 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Steven http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html/comment-page-1#comment-12610 Steven Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:00:16 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=1945#comment-12610 Hey Stephen great post on this information overload subject. With too much information these days, many people who are just starting to learn in a particular topic, could feel exhaustion and anxiousness. Because there are too many sources available, and there is no way for a person to fully know which source is the most credible. In order to find out if a source is credible or not, more information has to be accessed, which could cause more potential exhaustion and anxiousness. - I was one of that. I was researching global warming, however the information on was completely scattered with multiple sides to it. And every single side is biased with their own arguments. I have no idea which side is right. Even if I find a credible source, there is another credible source opposing their side. Luckily, I've talked to some folks with credible backgrounds on this topic, so that drove away my frustration on finding out the truth. But like you said in your post, I can only accept that I could only absorb some parts of the whole story. Thanks for this post Stephen. Steven .-= Steven´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.humanexplosion.com/2009/11/comic-lesson-5-don%E2%80%99t-be-afraid-to-give-and-love/" rel="nofollow">Comic Lesson #5 : Don’t Be Afraid to Give and Love</a> =-. Hey Stephen great post on this information overload subject.

With too much information these days, many people who are just starting to learn in a particular topic, could feel exhaustion and anxiousness. Because there are too many sources available, and there is no way for a person to fully know which source is the most credible. In order to find out if a source is credible or not, more information has to be accessed, which could cause more potential exhaustion and anxiousness. – I was one of that.

I was researching global warming, however the information on was completely scattered with multiple sides to it. And every single side is biased with their own arguments. I have no idea which side is right. Even if I find a credible source, there is another credible source opposing their side. Luckily, I’ve talked to some folks with credible backgrounds on this topic, so that drove away my frustration on finding out the truth.

But like you said in your post, I can only accept that I could only absorb some parts of the whole story.

Thanks for this post Stephen.

Steven
.-= Steven´s last blog ..Comic Lesson #5 : Don’t Be Afraid to Give and Love =-.

]]> By: Kelly Ray-Grady http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html/comment-page-1#comment-12590 Kelly Ray-Grady Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:41:29 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=1945#comment-12590 Lotta noise but no touching. Lotta words but no intimacy. I don't know. Is it a narcissistic thing? I thought about that. Are we finding ways to distract ourselves from the necessary path? (dispossession of words) ...so that we can hear a truth not born of our own breath? I think we're just afraid to shut up and listen. Lotta noise but no touching.
Lotta words but no intimacy.
I don’t know.
Is it a narcissistic thing?
I thought about that.
Are we finding ways to distract ourselves from the necessary path?
(dispossession of words)
…so that we can hear a truth not born of our own breath?
I think we’re just afraid to shut up and listen.

]]> By: Stephen Mills http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html/comment-page-1#comment-12586 Stephen Mills Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:12:48 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=1945#comment-12586 Hi there Jonathan, and thanks for commenting. I'm all about maintaining my sanity in the rising ocean of noise. :-) Hi there Jonathan, and thanks for commenting. I’m all about maintaining my sanity in the rising ocean of noise. :-)

]]> By: Stephen Mills http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html/comment-page-1#comment-12585 Stephen Mills Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:08:40 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=1945#comment-12585 Hello Eduard, thanks a lot for commenting and for your compliments about my article :-) Hello Eduard, thanks a lot for commenting and for your compliments about my article :-)

]]> By: Stephen Mills http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html/comment-page-1#comment-12584 Stephen Mills Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:03:36 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=1945#comment-12584 Hello Daphne! That bunny trail thing is sometimes a killer for me. But on occasion and when I have time (which is not often), I've discovered something wonderful. We have to make a little time for that as well. It's about a little balance. Hello Daphne! That bunny trail thing is sometimes a killer for me. But on occasion and when I have time (which is not often), I’ve discovered something wonderful. We have to make a little time for that as well. It’s about a little balance.

]]> By: Stephen Mills http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html/comment-page-1#comment-12583 Stephen Mills Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:00:13 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=1945#comment-12583 Hello Armen, I thought that picture captured the problem with our modern technological world of information overload quite dramatically. I don't think that accepting we can't do it all is taking a risk. It's accepting reality and spending some time doing something rather than simply trying not to miss something, which is going to happen anyway. Hello Armen, I thought that picture captured the problem with our modern technological world of information overload quite dramatically. I don’t think that accepting we can’t do it all is taking a risk. It’s accepting reality and spending some time doing something rather than simply trying not to miss something, which is going to happen anyway.

]]> By: Stephen Mills http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/increasing-your-signal-to-noise-ratio.html/comment-page-1#comment-12582 Stephen Mills Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:55:30 +0000 http://www.ratracetrap.com/?p=1945#comment-12582 Hi Martin. I know where you are coming from. I was overwhelmed and I finally had to just cut a lot of it out or risk going crazy. Hi Martin. I know where you are coming from. I was overwhelmed and I finally had to just cut a lot of it out or risk going crazy.

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