Futurist Ross Dawson’s Podcast: Thriving on Overload

“You could spend all your life just drinking from that firehose and not making sense of it, or you can say, Okay, enough, let me try and structure this. That’s really the magic.”

Futurist Ross Dawson has a podcast called Thriving on Overload. He spoke to me about how I gather information and then sort it out and make sense of it.

How to make sense of the information, data, opinion and fake news that comes to us. The time stamps will help you navigate to the specific segment.,

• What mentality is needed to thrive on overload (01:51)

• How to structure your engagement with information (03:31)

• How to convert the divergent into a convergence (05:01)

• Using sketchnotes for sensemaking (07:20)

• How to pull and distil the essence of complex ideas (11:10)

• How to organise information visually (14:11)

• Developing a thriving community by being accessible (16:10)

• How organisations can help their employees to deal with information overload (21:26)

• What is the way to teach learning to learn in a world of fast change (27:45)

• Why conversation is a powerful tool to thrive on overload (30:54)

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