What the hell is wrong with everyone?

(You and me included.)

• Overwhelmed (with everything)

• Anxious (about everything)

• Sleeping issues, brain won’t shut down

• Addicted to tech

• Constant confusion

• Attention and memory problems

• Loss of trust in anything

• Poor decision-making

• FOMO

• Endless rabbit holes and distractions

• Time-wasting, doom-scrolling +++

• Loss of agency, social acceptance, & self-identity

Too much information!!

Humans are not hardwired to defend against TMI (Too Much Information), algorithmic control, or AI driving everything everywhere. We must evolve to coexist with the technology we have created. Critical Ignoring delves into a crucial but overlooked skill — the ability to strategically filter out irrelevant, manipulative, or deceptive information, to eliminate much of the useless content floating on the Internet.

We all hear we must embrace Critical Thinking, but there’s too damned much information to process. Critical Ignoring comes first. It’s about getting our brains to automatically know what to ignore in the first place. It’s a mental triage process. Critical Ignoring reduces our cognitive load so we can concentrate on Critical Thinking for only those things we choose are important. Else, we lose our identity and choose Cognitive Surrender instead.