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Information Anxiety.

The most common thing in the world of Web3 is information anxiety. Even I have begun to have such anxiety behaviors. You can do a little test. The following ten points can help you understand whether you also have information anxiety:

  1. No matter where I am, I check my phone several times a day for fear of missing any notification

  2. I check my mailbox several times a day, for fear of missing any important letter

  3. Afraid that I can't keep up with the fashion, I will deliberately find out what the current fashion is

  4. I feel anxious if I find out that someone is talking about a topic I don’t know

  5. No matter whether the information is useful to you or not, you should read it first.

  6. Prepare a lot of information but rarely read it

  7. If you can’t find new information to read, you will feel empty

  8. Hanging on the Internet all the time, looking for all kinds of things

  9. I feel like I’ve read a lot of information, but I don’t seem to have learned it

  10. Feel that the ratio of input to output is not proportional As long as you have more than five points, you may have to pay attention to whether you have information anxiety.

So why do we have information anxiety? It can also be integrated into three points:

  1. Fomo: Fear of Missing Out

  2. Fear of not keeping up with the times

  3. I want to learn everything, so I can't learn anything

When you start having information anxiety, you may end up with:

  1. No time to digest information

  2. Blind study

  3. Making wrong judgments

So how can we reduce information anxiety?

  1. Know that you are experiencing information anxiety

  2. You don’t need to learn everything

  3. Accept that you are not perfect

In addition, we provide ten ways to help you reduce information anxiety:

  1. Figure out the purpose of each message

  2. Consciously reduce information

  3. Categorize information

  4. Replacing learning with accumulated experience

  5. Give yourself time to organize and output

  6. Schedule exercise and rest time

  7. Go out for a walk and stay away from the internet

  8. Try meditation

  9. Get a good night’s sleep

  10. AND the last but not least, read LonelyPop's Mental health article

May we all have peace of mind in Web3.