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So have you ever felt paralyzed by an overwhelming abundance of information?

Frustration just boiling inside you as you sift through

mountains of data, desperately seeking the perfect answer to your dilemma.

In today's information-driven world, we often fall into the trap of believing that more

information equals better decisions.

But this belief is a delusion, one that keeps you stuck and unable to make the smart decisions that you need to make and quickly.

Fifty years ago, famed psychiatrist Stuart Oskamp conducted a groundbreaking study that put this need-to-know-more information to make better decisions, delusioned to the test.

Oskamp presented a panel of psychiatric experts with varying amounts of information

about a patient named Joseph Kidd. Kid was a 29-year-old ex-Army college graduate who had

a lot of psychological problems and family issues. What Oskamp did was he took all of his notes from seeing

Kid for years and years and years and years, and he summarized them into a couple of paragraphs.

He then distributed them to a panel of experts, esteemed psychologist, chairs of psychiatric

departments and universities, serious people who really knew what they were doing. He said, I'm going to give you

this summary of my patient, Kid. I would like you to read it, and I'd like you to answer a 25

question questionnaire about what's wrong with Kid, and I want to see how many answers that you

can get. Correct. So they did that. And then he comes back to them and says, okay, this time I want you to do the

questionnaire again, but this time instead of only a summary, I'll give you three pages of

information, more information. So I want to see how well you do. So they did that. Then he comes

back and he says, this time I'm going to give you 10 pages and you do the 25 item questionnaire.

And they did that. And finally, he gives them

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