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IS INFORMATION OVERLOAD REALLY A THING OR WE'RE JUST BEING CYNICAL?
By Nungkop Mishael

There is so much (massive) content and wisdom to be accessed easily and cheaply currently on the internet like there has never been in the history of our world.

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As Class Teacher 2009

However, we continue to scratch just the surface and little is the benefit of doing so.

In the light of the above, concepts like Information Overload has continue to gain popularity. Example of opinion(s) regarding 'IO' is that, among other problems, Information Overload

can lead to a paralysis of analysis, making it far harder to find the right solutions or make the best decisions.
In the medical field (but applicable to most others as well), too much information leads to confusion, uncertainty, delay and inability to take decisions and a sense

of frustration and dissatisfaction from misplaced expectations.

Jack Canfield is quoted bellow:
“There's so much information on the internet. But people don't need more information, they need 'aha moments," my writing is totally away from the discussion of information overload

or how man is struggling to process all the information. You actually can't digest the information on the internet. In fact, nobody is able to ascertain the size of the information (data) that is on the internet, but only to guess.

@Twitter for example is like a university offering tweeps an opportunity to learn multiple course at the same time, but there's no graduation because, it is a school of life. The same applies to the many novel platforms across the internet. If you have read this and you're not

bored yet, it means I'm able to get your attention. So, please, lend me your time.

EDUCATION is not limited to the classroom alone. There's also the non formal education where you learn survival. It is crucial to know that you are not unfortunate if you don't have a degree to

your name.

You can in fact go for one at your chosen time. Recall our former president, Pa Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, he continued to develop himself even after he exited public space as the president of Nigeria,he went on to bag a Doctorate Degree. What a motivation!

The story of many Nigerians an indeed many great individuals across the world that made an indelible mark in this world from the past, was not a function of the schools they attended, most of them went through different non-formal education -apprenticeship, than conventional

schools, many of whom never bag any degree, but learned from life's experiences, and we have come to identify them as some of the greatest men and women to have lived.

The point I'm trying to make is, you may be late at some things,but you're never too late. For example, if

you get to attend a University at 40, it will take you ± 4years to get a degree depending on what you chose to study. But your life doesn't depend on it.

Again, a University or tertiary education has more functions than just helping you secure a job. It builds you in ways so

that you become effective and better member of the society, with character and informed standing in whatever you do. Note, that you can achieve same while undergoing any form of learning in both formal and informal settings; as student, apprentice or protege (mentee).

While formal education emphasizes character and learning, it is often mistaken for an endeavour that emphasizes intelligence or intelligent quotient (IQ) alone. That's not totally true. Because, there's a form of learning that takes place in schools too that is not all curricular

in nature.
It was Julius Caesar that said "Ut est rerum omnium magister usus", roughly interpreted "Experience is the teacher of all things" or more generally "experience is the best teacher" attributed to Julius Caesar in De Bello Civile, the war commentaries of the Civil War.

Books are considered to be the source of all knowledge, but all that one learns through a book is only of theoretical nature in the form of ideas and concepts. It is essential to utilize them in a real environment and experience the knowledge that is learned from books.

Though, a formal setting, the University affords the learners (students) an opportunity to learn some salient lessons that they'll never hear from those paid to instruct them on their respective disciplines. It is in the informal times that you learn a manifest aspect of school.

It is in those moments that you learn the art of living. It is at those moments that you learn from others experiences and mistakes for free and often than not, these lessons lives with us. I have hinted somewhere in my short writings that my greatest teachers; people I consider

my most cherished teachers were not classroom teachers, but life teachers. While the most invaluable lessons I've learned overtime didn't come from my teachers in a school setting, but from life teachers, found (seen) in different spheres of life, they all form part of our lives

story.

We are back to where we started. These teachers found in different places, disciplines and parts of the world are, today accessible easily, they are everywhere on the internet, on the streets, in our markets, in various workplaces, in leadership positions, in distant

countries where we may be continent apart, yet accessible by virtue of the internet.

You just have to conditioned your mind that you too are capable of learning anything from anyone. Sometimes that's all it takes, the resolve to learn something everyday from anybody and from

somebody; but you must pay the price. The price of which is your attitude to learning and personal development and the patience and humility it takes. Consider the entire world as a school and everyone as a student and at the same time a teacher. If you're able to grasp this

picture I'm trying to paint to you, then you'll realize that you have students of your own, who are learning subconsciously from your life and you can't afford to be a bad teacher. While some lessons are taught intentionally, other lessons are silent and you must pay close

attention to learn, some are just a product of your ability to observe the world around you and some are simply the experiences of others, really, you don't have to experience certain things in order to learn from them. you can leverage other's experiences. Pay attention, open

your mind, be teachable, your next teacher may be that beggar on your street, the teenager around the corner or the old people found in your community whose world view is that old, or that petty trader or the politician you thought nothing good can come out of him/her, or your

friends, whom familiarity has for long deprived you from learning anything from the annoying things they do when you are with them. Let me also be the one to remind you that some lessons will be painful and may not always come from a human being. Inanimate objects and animals...