"The conundrums are: -- * Too much information: There’s too much information in the world for anybody to process. **Each of us occupies our unique position in space and time, and we’re missing a whole lot of information about every other position in space and time relative to what we know about our own position. The only reason we can look at anything at all is because almost everything is filtered away first.** * Not enough meaning: Nothing makes sense until we wrap it up in a story that we can relate to. **Information comes at us disconnected and out of order, until we give it meaning by connecting the dots. This is how we orient ourselves to the world, but there’s not much that prevents others from connecting the dots in a different way.** * Not enough time and resources: We have to get things done despite the constraints we face in time, resources, attention, energy, and opportunity. None of us has the luxury of unlimited time and resources, which means we’ll always need to leap into action with partial information." (~[Location 1066](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B081J97HLQ&location=1066)~) -- *** #### See Also - [[202308170954 — AtN — Productive disagreement can be a superpower]] - [[202308181107 — AtN — Staying calm within disagreements can be a superpower]] - [[202308181234 — AtN — Telling stories well can be a superpower]] *** **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[mental-models]] , [[type-one-thinking]], [[anxiety]], [[mindfulness]], [[juicy-sentences]], [[story-bias]], [[action-bias]] **Source** — [[202308170952 — B — Why Are We Yelling]]