It’s very difficult to boil the entire ocean. The ocean is so vast, that if you tried to boil it with fire or natural gas or lava or a nuclear bomb, you may be able to induce a few minutes of boiling within a small volume, but quite soon the boiling will stop.
The ocean is so vast it acts as a near-infinite heat sin. Except for an astronomical event, boiling the entire ocean is futile. It’s much better to create a boundary around part of the ocean—as in the pot pictured above—and concentrate on boiling that.
Now—because of the digital age—we have available to us a near-infinite set of information. And for those of us who have a lot of curiosity about the world, there is a tendency to try to engage with as much of it as we can.
But, just like boiling the ocean, engaging with too much information is a fool’s errand. Be selective. know your mission and curate information.
Simply put, create a boundary and focus your energy. That’s the ticket.