James Clear said “When access to all information is common, attention to important information is rare”
The late Herbert Simon, an economist, psychologist and Nobel Prize winner, said this about information overload, “…information consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
With so much information available to you, it can be hard to know what is good and useful information and what is not. The investment industry is full of information. Much of it ‘feels’ useful, but is it? We all need someone to talk to so we can make sense of the information. But we also have to be careful who we talk to. Everyone in financial services is ‘nice’. You expect them to be ‘nice’, if they were not, you simply wouldn’t make the effort to talk to them. My question, are you prepared to have your thoughts and ideas challenged? If so, let’s chat.