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Do You Have The Fear of Forgetting? Here’s What To Do.
We go through our lives, living in fear. It’s not the fear our ancestors had to deal with, afraid of being stalked and hunted.
The fear of being eaten alive.
Instead, our fear, as knowledge workers, is the fear of forgetting.
Our task list piles up. Endless requests ding us on a dozen mediums.
It’s overwhelming. It puts us in a state of constant overwhelm.
Not as bad as being eaten alive, right?
There are three reasons why we fear forgetting; confusion, information overload, and complexity.
Confusion occurs when we have too many communication and tasking mediums.
You receive an urgent email from a client.
A co-worker sends you a Google Chat message about the status of urgent orders.
You’re sent project updates in Asana.
Because you didn’t reply at 3 am to the client’s email, you now have a Whatsapp message begging to be read.
A co-worker assigns you a task in your project management software.
