How To Analyze Information
How To Analyze Information
We all need to pay attention to these excellent pointers when coming to grips with information needed to make right decisions.
A must read and bookmark.
…the most important thing we’ve learned is that information is like water. It’s vital to our lives; we cannot survive without it. But if too much pours over us - we drown. To keep from drowning in information we must learn to use it properly, which means figuring out what the information is telling us. After all, it isn’t the information itself we use to make decisions; it’s the knowledge within the information that we use. This is why we must learn how to analyze information - how to determine just what information we need to make the decisions we face, how to get that information, and then - this is the most crucial step of all — how to reach inside this information to grasp the knowledge it contains. ~~~~Snip~~~~
Mr. Meyer is widely credited with being the first U.S. Government official to forecast the Soviet Union’s collapse — a forecast for which he later was awarded the U.S. National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, which is the Intelligence Community’s highest honor.
I learned much of this over the years, but got my eyes opened on things I had not thought about before.
September 16th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Marc, I read the whole article and I think this guy is right. It is certainly worth pondering and I’ve bookmarked it for further review. He is spot on about the common sense part. That is what it all boils down to. But the first two steps are, in my opinion, the most important.
September 16th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Marc,
Can I still think Dhimicrats are bad, without having to think too long and hard?
September 16th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
I’ve got a prism sooo big…
HOW BIG IS IT?
It’s so big there is not an honest Dhimicrat to be seen.
Thanks for the article.
September 16th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Excellent article Marc. I think about the stunning increase in the availability of information that I’ve seen in my life and I know how important the ability to use information well is to me, and even more so, how important the skill will be to my kids. There is some great food for thought in the article, and yet, Mr. Meyer presented it in a very down to earth and readable format. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Too bad I didn’t read this article before I read it. I probably would have gotten even MORE out of it…..
Thanks Marc.