Everyone has a ceiling, and everyone has limits. It's only up to them to establish what type of ceiling it is when they reach it. Whether it's glass, asbestos, rhinoboard, or wooden, with your spirit you can break it.
Sometimes the content we consume is the agent of limitations. What we get fed online and offline determines how far we'll go in life. Some of the content is designed to create hype, some to sow doubt, some to warn us, and a bit of it to grow us.
What you should know is that there are PR agencies whose role is to be news peddlers. The content we feed on is designed for a specific purpose all the time, and it's spread as such using the relevant mediums suitable to the relevant targets. Remember the cliche, "don't believe everything you read in the papers." That's a classic example of doubt creation.
The power of communication is beyond limits and how the wordsmith masters use it is shocking. PR is a good thing in that through it scores of us worship movie stars, idolize musicians, glorify sports personalities, respect published authors, be various brand loyalists, etc, through endorsements, product placements, copy writing, etc, and to date worse.
Globalization a phenomenon that changed the world as we knew it and its revolutionary results vivid. The internet made it more a reality than any other leaps been before. Legislation also played a huge role in enabling the technological aspects a reality. New models of financial services did wonders in ensuring availed funds to make true dreams be realized.
Everyone in this day is a newsmaker, thanks to the internet. Just that what differs is the impact of those news via relevancy to the target audience. At times be it that the content is right but placed on the wrong platform, or be that the timing not right.
The influence of media today a difficult task to get right. Sifting through the content is not easy to tell instantly what fake news is from authentic news. From any big headliner there'll be a lot of news diluting the truth of that, and that's the reality of today's news reporting. Current affairs used to be about formally structured format of news reporting but now a different game, everything is now news.
But then, what do you do after filtering what you consume? Don't limit yourself by not casting your knowledge seeking net as wide as possible, keep digging after each layer of information that you get. Also, don't be lied to by the saying that the internet is having all the answers you need for that's limiting you. There's still a lot of information that the internet doesn't have answers for you on and that meaning you still have to go out to the library and interrogate those books, follow forums for unpublished authors to get more information to turn into knowledge, listen to all types of music, watch any tv program and listen to radio and podcasts, go out and talk to people, etc, for there's still a lot to unearth that way.
In conclusion: it's in how we learn to sift on what we get fed on that we'll get ahead as better people, especially the young ones. We need to develop a skill of analyzing what we consume so we don't get easily derailed by manipulators of facts. If we be open-minded we won't be gullible and shortsighted as those makes one be legible for failing to break through set barriers of limitation. Do yourself a favour and source information from multiple platforms of knowledge base, afterall it's your own value to grow and protect as an individual, so break those limits...
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