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The Older, The More Productive
A study conducted by Professor Monchi Uri showed elderly people eliminate the unnecessary and leave only the most efficient options for solving a problem.
Thirty or more years ago, I was part of a video crew doing an employee training video. The CEO, in his sixties, a no time for chit-chat kind of guy, had a cameo part as part of the intro. He was famous for his ad lib speeches and marketing input. It was a short intro but it was scripted and hard for the CEO to grasp.
“I tell you the problem,”he bellowed. The problem is is too much information. My brain does not need to process all that trivia.” He took the script and began to slash all the flabby words. We were horrified but he actually made it a better script.
Ironically, one of Professor Monchi Uri, University of Montreal, lists the bad habit of trying to remember everything as a deterrent to a good memory.
“Absent-mindedness and forgetfulness appear only due to an overabundance of information,” he says. So stop focusing on unimportant things. They just clog the brain.
