Are you an info-skimmer, dipper, plunger, or junkie?

With the amount of information available today, knowing the answer can change your life.

Here’s why.

All of us are interested in various things—whether in our personal or our professional lives. Beyond our own interests, there are the interests of family, friends and colleagues, because most of us enjoy passing on info we feel they’d enjoy. It’s a way to show our interest and demonstrate that we really do pay attention to them. The information came from articles, books, radio and TV, and was more confined to the specific subject, and the lack of readily available, tangential info curbed our casual curiosity.

Then came the web…

And there went the curb.

The information found on the web is packed with hot links, often to tantalizing items that have no real relevance to our original interest, but they catch our eye and it’s oh-so-easy to click. And, of course, there are more enticing links in that item and in the next and suddenly minutes, or even hours, have sped by.

This hits some people much harder than others, hence the importance of the original question.

• Skimmers easily miss important connections because they’re moving too fast.
• Dippers get all of what they need and usually turn away from the extraneous.
• Plungers love to dive-in to great depth, but are fairly good at staying on target.
• Junkies have the greatest problems, lose the most time, and are more likely to fall over the edge into addiction. (Info-addiction isn’t as obvious as games, chat rooms, etc., because information isn’t considered a negative.)

Depending on your answer, you may decide to increase or decrease your info-attitude, which means raising your awareness and changing your MAP.

Fortunately, it’s your choice.

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