In Henry Marsh’s book “Do no harm” he talks about the tightrope and not looking down, we become overwhelmed when we look down.
If you lived in Victorian England around the time of Sherlock Holmes was set, it would still be possible to be completely overwhelmed.
You would be able to walk into a library at that stage and realise that you would never read all of the books or realise that you would never read every piece of column hinged in every newspaper or meet every single person in London.
The difficulty now is that the scale of where we are and what we do is in our face all day, every day and the sense of fear of missing out means that we feel overwhelmed that we’re not keeping up.
The trick there, is not to get bigger, the trick is to get smaller, the trick is to shrink focus, not spread it out widely.
As I was sat at my desk this morning, I had a CT scan come through from someone else, which was an advert for artificial intelligence software for reporting scans on the front.
The first urge is to be overwhelmed, to understand that I need to know everything about artificial scan reporting and the second is to not.
Artificial intelligence will change things and it will change the game, but I will not be able to be in control of all of that and I only need to use the tools I have in front of me to improve the things that I do and that will work great.
Remove the overwhelm, return to focus.
Blog Post Number - 2296