# Chapter 80

Drowning in information.

This is a world overpowered overwhelmed and overcome in information and disinformation. Let’s said it this way, the inputs are screaming in overload mode! This makes it impossible to act with any clarity, impossible to even find clarity, and impossible to practice quiet or silence. Turn it off!

If you don’t slow this tsunami of incoming data, you were never find stillness, quiet, peace, clarity, understanding, insight and giant leaps in progress. It will be your normal to be always swimming upstream, and difficulties will be a matter of degrees related to how fast you are swimming and how fast the flow is moving against you.

Come to shore. Get out of the flow. Step into a world of no data (or at least far less data) and experience the visceral silence, along with a mind that might be stunned by the lack of resistance! Turn it off!

There are ways to do this, and I have done all of these and keep looking for more. Get rid of the TV. This is a most important step. Honestly folks, there are so many books to be read! Don’t play any music in your auto. This is one of best percolating times. Haven’t played a radio in a car in decades. I find that I miss neither the TV nor the radio and I have just eliminated 50% of the disinformation out there, and 80% of the talking noise inside my head coming through my ears.

The smartphone, tablet and computer - ah there lies a challenge for me still as those are primary working tools - but they often are used for forms of information/noise/talking heads/etc etc. And the remaining percentage of noise and information and data come from the people you spend time with. Choose wisely if you have a choice.