We have a surplus of information. About 20-30 years ago, information was scarce and to the ones who had it, it meant power. Now, it is everywhere and we no longer consider it as an upper-hand. In fact, too much information can be a disadvantage, a distraction even. Not only that it creates doubts, it amplifies our weakness.
An excess of information implies less concentration. Oftentimes, leads us to a path of nothing–easily falling for anything, without standing for something.
The better way to information is to go against the crowd, to avoid what everybody knows. If more and more people know and do the same thing, the lower the value of that same thing gets. And the chances of it failing is higher as well.
If access to information is a tap away, what becomes more difficult? Filtering them. Letting go of the junk and focusing on those that are actually relevant to us has become harder than ever because we have fooled ourselves that we are better off with more, when in most cases we function at our best with less.