The document discusses three reasons why people do not care about information overload: fear of missing out on new and exciting information leads people to seek out more information; information inertia makes people unwilling to filter out unwanted information; and people undervalue their own attention and do not make the necessary investment to save their most important resource - their attention.
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Why We Don't Care About Information overload?
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Why we dont care about Information Overload
Fear Of
Missing Out
Information
Inertia
Undervalue
Attention
On New &
Exciting Stuff
Unwillingness
to filter out
unwanted stuff
Lack of
investment to
save most
important
resource -our
attention
Source: Tom Davenport, http://blogs.hbr.org/2009/12/why-we-dont-care-about-informa/
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Undervalue our
own Attention
lack of investment in
attention to save our own
attention (most important
resource of business)
Source: Tom Davenport, http://blogs.hbr.org/2009/12/why-we-dont-care-about-informa/