I'm one of the afflicted; always looking for more information. One other thing I've noticed in myself after beginning to do a little mediation is a pervading an

I'm one of the afflicted; always looking for more information. One other thing I've noticed in myself after beginning to do a little mediation is a pervading and constant sense of "I should be"... * I should be building my own business * I should be better at this * I should be earning more * I should be living a 4 hour workweek I've realised that these are caustic feelings that cause a low level pervasive feeling of stress, and worse distort the lens that I observe myself through. I'm far from unsuccessful: I'm a self taught programmer and I'm good at what I do. Financially I'm up near the top in terms of earnings, despite only programming professionally for 5 years or so. Partly I'm successful due to that thirst for knowledge I guess. So it's a difficult balance between healthy inquisitiveness and a desire to expose oneself to new ideas for their own sake, and getting stuck in a negative consumption/inhalation loop with no corresponding fulfilment/exhalation phase.