Week 6 Reflections: Slowing down with the intention to speed up

This week has been hectic

Somehow despite averaging on about 2.5 hours of sleep this week, the over-riding feeling I have is one of enrichment. I’m yet to process, organise or contextualise much of the information I’ve been fed but thankfully I’ve had quite a few moments where I’ve seen parallels between my courses and my final project idea. Once I find some head space to organise my thoughts, I’ll share these with you.

I’ve decided to keep this week’s blog light, partly because I think I need to slow down and build some capacity but also because intentionality matters to me, and I don’t want to share for the sake of sharing. So instead, I’ll skip straight to the food for thought section.

A final note/food for thought

Whilst I was dabbling about how I was going to approach making my head feel a little less heavy, I had a quick thought about information overload. Specifically, what is the impact of information overload on agency? Does the impact (in direction and scale) look different for marginalised groups in comparison to more privileged members of society? Where do learning styles come in and how much is this affected by the way our educational institutions are set up or our exposure to alternative information sources in our formative years?

I started Googling some of the questions I had and came across these two interesting papers. The first is by James Moore, and amongst other things explores how people perceive their own agency. The second is by Francis Heylighen and addresses how the set-up of society today impacts our ability to process information effectively.

Enjoy the rest of your week! J