Ok, so the semi-hot girl horsing into cake might be a little unnecessary. But the truth is, I don’t care how skinny you are, it’s something that we all do, usually without realising.
We overindulge. We keep consuming without taking stock.
I’ve just done an interview with Jon Alford (which will be up on the blog shortly), and we talked a little about this, but it really stuck with me.
Why do we over-consume, but never leave time for digestion?
We live in a world of information overload; but instead of pausing for a second, we keep piling up our plates with information.
What happens when a person regularly eats too much? They become unhealthy. The same can be said for our minds. Feeding the brain too much (irrelevant) information without allowing time for digestion makes our minds unhealthy.
We should absorb information the same way that we absorb food. We eat until we are full then we digest. Our bodies use the previous meal to give us energy for the next few hours. After that we go back and eat some more.
Why not apply this principle to how we absorb information? When we learn something we need to digest it and use it positively before moving on to the next “meal”, not just jumping straight onto the next thing.
With all the “noise” and frankly crap out there on the internet, it’s easy to get overloaded, but we don’t have to. Remain mindful of what information you decide to take in, ponder on it, use it as fuel.
Benny Hsu wrote an interesting post about this recently. Humans are the only organisms on the planet that take much more than they need.
Using the “food principle” (Unregistered Trademark 
) to absorb information:
) to absorb information:Ingest. Digest. Utilise. Repeat Cycle.
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