Thriving in the knowledge economy
Priorities are important because they keep you focused and undistracted on your goals.
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” – Herbert Simon
What Herbert Simon was saying is that a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
This highlights the importance of prioritising our activities. In this world of ours where information is coming out so quickly that we can’t keep up, it’s important to learn how to better manage our attention for peak performance.
In this knowledge economy of ours, the person who knows more stands a chance to produce more. Knowledge leads to confidence, which is the key to success.
Generally, when a person exhibits confidence, it makes it easier to trust that person, and let’s be honest, who doesn’t want to be around a confident person? People want to work with confident people that they will trust.
When a person is confident, they typically are happy and feel positive about their ability to deal will daily challenges. With so much information to deal with it, it makes demands that a person must be clear and disciplined to manage their attention and focus on priorities.
Priorities are important because they keep you focused and undistracted on your goals. When your priorities are clear, your energy gets used to the right things.
Your efficiency and effectiveness increase, thereby bringing you much closer to achieving your set goals. It is tempting to try and attend to every interesting piece of information that comes out, but this comes at a huge cost.
It channels your energy on activities that won’t move you forward.
Now that you know this, I’m certain you will efficiently use your energy and attention on what matters most.
