Sasaki: Why too much information makes you dumber

“In experiments, it can be shown that people who are bombarded with an excess of information perform worse in intelligence tests than if they smoke marijuana. So in life, it’s not about collecting as much ‘information’ as possible, but on the contrary, about curbing the flow of information as much as possible.”

– Fumio Sasaki in his book “That can go away! – The liberating feeling of living with less”, Integral Publishing, page 192