The Word 6:11

We tend to scroll through dozens of posts on social media in a matter of seconds and never take a second thought about what kinds of information we are ingesting. I would encourage people to stop ingesting information so quickly!  Here is an example: if we read 300 social media posts in 2 hours. It would be like walking through a crowded mall and listening to everyone's conversations. There probably isn't much information to glean from that situation. However, if we sat down and listened to a 30-minute lecture from a 30-year professional who spent 10 years researching a topic we are interested in. Their words will be loaded to the brim with information that we would probably have to study for hours to even begin to understand what they were talking about. Imagine a person going around collecting a brick from 300 different people. Each brick is slightly different in shape; some are falling apart, others are rubber bricks, and some are made of steel and weigh a ton. Then, after t...