The Principle of Relevance: The Essential Strategy to Navigate Through the Information Age

by Stefania Lucchetti

How often do you find yourself in information overload? We are flooded with emails, text messages, and phone calls. This constant swirl of digital information exchange often makes us feel as if we have lost control of our time. In today's society, our competitive edge is no longer based on availability of information, but rather on the ability to navigate through a flood of high-speed data. In order to excel within this development we need to become conscious (deliberately) of what is worth dedicating our time and energy to. The Principle of Relevanceaims to help develop the reader's awareness of the thinking mechanisms involved in information processing and to teach more effective habitual responses. It's within the reader's power to transform this continuous information flow from a distraction into a tool of empowerment.

205 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 20, 2010

About the author

Stefania Lucchetti is a contemporary award-winning Italian poet and essayist. She is bilingual (Italian-English) and writes in both languages.

Born in 1975 in Italy, she saw her first poem published at the age of 13 while living in the US with her family, marking the beginning of a long journey as wordsmith. After the diploma at the liceo classico Alighieri in Gorizia and juris doctorate from the Catholic University of Milan in 1999 with a thesis on the liberalisation of the telecommunications regulatory framework, she embarked on a career as a multiqualified lawyer in the field of international commercial law in Milan, London and Hong Kong, without ever ceasing to write. Among the first Italian lawyers to specialize in telecommunications and new technologies, she advised several early internet pioneers during the dot-com boom. Lucchetti was the first Italian lawyer to also qualify as a solicitor in Hong Kong SAR, after qualifying in the UK. She also obtain a second master’s degree in clinical psychology out of personal interest and to enrich her knowledge base and her writing.

Her profile is listed in Italian Poetry Org, Wikipoesia, and Poetesse Donne.

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

First a disclaimer: I received a free ARC of this book in my line of work with a book distributor. My coworker recommended it to me because I run our social media and he thought the topic of relevance would be good. The ideas behind the book are good. The author talks about the overload of information we process daily, especially in this digital age. She makes good points about the need to evaluate the ingoing data and make conscious decisions about what we choose to act on.

However, I couldn't stay hooked enough to finish this book. I stopped about half-way through. I don't read a lot of this type of book, so I don't know if it was that, my limited attention span, or the quality of the book itself. I recently read "Ordering Your Private World," which had a few of the same principals (setting your priorities so you can evaluate what to say yes or no to), so I felt this one was a little redundant. So that may have had something to do with my stopping reading, too.

[Eliza Fayle · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Principle of Relevance is a guide for navigating through all the digital information that is thrown at us in at its forms. However, it is more than that. It is call to each of us to figure out what is really important to us so that we do not simply react, or the opposite, shut down from overload.

Most of the discussion and tools in The Principle of Relevance are about how to perform our work and research effectively by establishing and sticking to what is relevant. However, I found the advice could easily be extrapolated to how we process information in general.

I took Stefania’s principles and tools and created a process for determining how to balance my work and family obligations each day. Heck, I even now meet my spiritual needs each day! All by taking the time every morning to determine what is relevant for the day.

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