Thank you Harold Jarche (Harold Jarche » Using our knowledge) for drawing my attention to this quote and for the rest of his blog post from October 2010. I've been gorging at the buffet of ideas and writing... and am now suffering the consequences of excess!
Trisha Liu and CheeChin Liew both commented on Google+ about 'collecting' and 'consuming' information without taking time to reflect and give back a perspective on what has been gathered; however Harold's final word that reflecting is just the start, the real change takes place when we integrate new thinking and behaviours into our daily lives.
I had a short trip overseas recently and took some reading with me, with every intention of noting and long hand reflecting on what I have 'consumed' over recent months... I'm embarrassed to say the endless roll of movies and docos on the plane totally distracted me and yet more time has passed without any reflection - and in that time I've been back at that buffet, shoveling it all down, so fast and in such quantity, I can no longer remember what it was I 'ate'.
In other aspects of life, I've always said that less should be more... maybe the way to quench the thirst for ideas and information, I should go slower and think more deeply and focus on just one (or maybe two) thoughts at a time!
