preface
We are living in an age of information explosion. It is hard to overemphasize the importance of fast access to information. There are many kinds of information, some can find the source, some can’t, some can find the pattern, and some can’t. The truth is, however, that not many people actually get good information and digest it effectively.
In the process of obtaining information, you should have the ability to screen information. You should verify what is official information and discriminate what is false information. See the net some fall into kill pig dish, the load is heavy. If you think about it, the ability to sort through information is really the biggest problem.
Of course, it is a very complicated process for a person to internalize and use information, and everyone has his own unique method. Today we’re going to talk about how to get “good information” and how to filter out useless information. Here are a few principles for getting information:
Do your best to get “first-hand information”
The key to this principle is, what is the definition of “first-hand information”? For those authorities or state agencies, or experts, or the author of the information released by the vast majority of cases can be viewed as first-hand information, first-hand information, not by others to understand, digest secondary information.
This is especially true of intellectual things. It should be the original, not embellished. Why is the value of first-hand information greater than secondary information or even multi-hand information? Quite simply, this effect will be amplified obviously in the stock or investment market. Being able to obtain first-hand information in the first time is one of the key factors for accurately and quickly judging the market trend.
Paid information is better than free information
To this principle, may not be absolute, but in most of the time is right, at least for now, many “white piao party”, may indeed be changed their habits, you know, actually free instead of the most expensive, because it bring you negative effect or time cost, even may “poisoning” you ‘enthusiasm for information and knowledge, Of course, there will be a small number of people to open source or free of good things.
Most of the situation abroad is better than at home
As well as the second point above, need you to take a review and critical thinking to look at, the creation of the domestic overall environment related to individual roles is still relatively poor and impetuous, although changed over the years, but the current from the media, including some of the so-called big V, there will be a lot of articles of padding, video and other content, including the current information overload, in fact, precisely, Is spam overload, those quality content with knowledge, after all, few.
Selective believe experts, and focus on their daily share, but don’t infatuated with superstition experts, many will no brain injection current so-called pseudo known brick house, but in most cases, is expert in some field precipitation was studied for many years, you can look at other people’s some ideas, views, and the framework, in some cases, may really to inspire yourself.
Through redundancy and alignment of information
To take a simple example, if Warren Buffett said something today, of course the media would record it and report it. However, various media outlets may have recorded errors and may have intentionally or not inserted their own opinions, attributing statements that Buffett did not make to him, thereby introducing misinformation, subjectively or objectively.
If you’re only getting information from one source, it’s hard to tell if you’re getting accurate information or if it’s mixed with some misinformation. But if you can get information from multiple sources, each of which is somewhat subjective, a lot of the noise cancels out due to their different perspectives, and you get relatively accurate information.
Be alert to the response of echo chamber at all times to avoid locking yourself into a closed information circle, so that external information will not be able to enter slowly. In short, when acquiring information, we must try to absorb it from different dimensions and angles.
The information is broken down into different dimensional filters
In China, people often struggle with a question, “Who will save the wife and mother after they fall into the water?” The main reason for this dilemma, if you think about it, is that there are so many factors to consider that it becomes confusing. The key, if you think about it, is to figure out what information we should take into account and what we shouldn’t.
For example, if you think that filial piety comes first, or who will live with me longer in the future comes first, then it is not difficult to make a choice. What you’re actually doing is breaking down this problem, which has a lot of distracting information, into some dimension that you can distinguish, like the dimension of filial piety, or the dimension of time spent together.
Pull information instead of waiting for it to be pushed
This is the last and most important point. The words “pull” and “push” here may be a little technical. To explain, pull means to actively search for some information on the Internet instead of waiting for various APPs to push information to you, although actively searching information may make you feel uncomfortable. But it’s the first step to getting good information.
Personally, I am currently engaged in technology-related work, and I have a lot of feelings about this. In fact, a person’s strong learning ability is just like the ability to survive. An important point to judge is whether he can find food by himself or wait for others to “feed him”.
The information that others feed you is not necessarily wrong or bad, such as some “We Media” information. However, if you want to get more accurate information, I suggest that you should actively search and check it, rather than relying solely on what others say. In other words, no one else is responsible for your consequences, but you are responsible for your own.
Of course, the above are some principles and thinking in the choice of information sources, I hope it can be helpful to the friends who need to obtain and screen information.