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How do you realize you’re becoming overwhelmed. How do you make decisions when you’re faced with making a quick decisions? How do you perform what is called operational prioritization?

Andrew Bustamante teaches you how to deal with being overwhelmed during your day – whether it’s work tasks or saving yourself from a terrorist. Instead of trying to think you can solve it all, do the ‘Next fastest/simplest thing’. The simplest solution is often a good enough to keep you moving towards success versus listening to inner dialog that doubts and can convince you that something cannot be done/overcome.

Articles

• https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/cia-decision-method/

Former Playstation president Shuhei Yoshida now runs his own consulting firm and makes it clear why games get canceled.

“In the worst case, we kind of calculate how much more money we have to spend to finish this game,” in an interview with Game File. “If the revenue seems lower than the money we need to spend to finish, we cancel the project. We cancelled lots of projects after the prototype level and no one knows in public. And that’s fine. That’s just a process, right?”

“Sometimes the game is in deep production,” Yoshida says. “The largest I canceled were two games, after we spent $25 million. At that time, that was lots of money. Now, not as much. I felt really bad about how we couldn’t see this.”

The connection between technology and cognitive decline is not limited to attention span issues. Research has shown that the digital age may be rewiring the brain in ways that make it more difficult to perform tasks that require deep thinking and sustained focus.

Troubling trends are suggesting that human cognitive abilities are in decline. Across age groups, attention spans are shortening, problem-solving skills are weakening, and reasoning abilities are deteriorating. Only 37.6 percent of Americans read a novel or short story in the past year, a noticeable drop from 41.5 percent in 2017 and 45.2 percent in 2012. Younger people are reporting a marked increase in an inability to think, concentrate and learn new things.

Studies suggest that excessive screen time, particularly on social media, can negatively impact both verbal and cognitive skills.

Article:

• https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/04/human-intelligence-is-sharply-declining/

“There’s nothing more dangerous than yesterday’s success”

Do not linger long on the victories, or failures, of the past if you want to move from success to success.

Links:

• https://fortune.com/article/workday-ceo-carl-eschenbach-career-advice-dangerous-success-failure/