Opinions: When to Keep Them to Yourself and When to Unleash Them

With access to a rapid flow of information today, you can be overwhelmed if you succumb to sharing an opinion on everything you encounter.

You’d never let yourself or your mind have the mental capacity to think deeply about something more substantial or personal to you. You’d be unable to focus for an extended period on a passion project or focus on the professional work you set out towards.

Having an opinion about everything will lead you to no worthy opinion.

You stretch yourself too thin. You’re just reacting to the world and not genuinely offering much value. You’re not creating anything. You’re just adding to the noise.

Focus on your work.

Dive deep into it, so deep, you cannot see the sunlight or hear the ramblings of the world around you, so that, when the moment strikes, if something comes up that has directly to do with your work, you can say something so valuable, so informative, that your contribution elevates a discussion to a new level, one in which no one else, but you could have achieved, then move on, and get back to work.

That’s how you thrive in the world of mass information hysteria.

You disappear, only to reappear when you can go for the throat.