In this day and age, we are in the information age, you can access information so easily, you can become a “somewhat expert” in something or just about anything. That is a good thing, a very good thing. The information age has many benefits, but it also has many downsides. The most basic disadvantage is privacy. Your info can be accessed all around the web, it can be used to take advantage of you, your privacy, and all. But what I realized is something more subjective, something that I know is affecting most people.
In the information age, knowledge and information are everywhere, our brains should also try to gather all this information to survive in society.
In innovating careers and fields, information and knowledge are being shared around the world every day, creating more innovative data, creating more new studies, creating new information, creating new things to learn. To survive, we need to keep adapting to these ever-accelerating fast changes.
In the web development career, let’s say you just finished learning Laravel framework, or React JS framework, then suddenly a new JS Library pops out, Three JS. Now you will need to learn concepts of 3D objects, faces, vertices, and the never-ending bucket of information.
You become frustrated.
You see a lot of people seem to adapt quickly, you feel like a loser.
NO!
Everyone struggles just like you, even the smartest ones feel the same way as you. In the information age, a lot of people struggle with studying, memorizing, remembering information. To survive at this age, all you need is perseverance. This may sound corny, you may have heard this a lot in self-improvement seminars. Well, it’s the truth. That’s why the numbers of successful people are lower than the least successful people. The rich are fewer, while the poor are in the billions in number. The rich perseveres, the poor want an easy life.
Use technology against technology.
With the wave of information, use your computer for the overwhelming data. You don’t need to memorize everything, save it on your computer. What is important is the theory, the concept of the data, the information you are learning.
This was my mistake, applying to an IT company, I always think “I need to know this and that.”. You will only burn yourself out. Try to learn the basic concept, the general structure, the whole picture. Just save and ready the smaller and countless info in your computer, your phone, your flash drives. LOL