Your adventures in information and ideas can feed your process of finding where you are called to invest your energy.

you need to establish a consistent set of portals and habits that support your objectives. These will include daily routines as well as some sources accessed less regularly.

When you seek to identify whether information serves you well, the most important consideration is if it enhances your mental models. You must be highly aware of whether information fits with your current thinking. Identifying data that supports your thinking is natural and can be useful. However, you also need to seek the most interesting evidence

It is up to each of us to negotiate daily Carl Sagan’s exhortation to balance an expansive openness to new frames of thinking with intense skepticism.

We need to acknowledge opposing information, strive to reconcile it with our existing frameworks, and if necessary, evolve our models or sometimes completely throw out old ones to adopt a more useful way of thinking about the world.

As we scan our information sources, we need to be most keenly attuned to what does not fit with our frameworks and mental models.

We should adopt as a core precept the adage of influential social scientist Gregory Bateson: “Knowledge comes from but a single perspective; wisdom comes from multiple perspectives.”

“The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

The ability to bring together diverse viewpoints into a richer, more sophisticated whole is at the center of continually improving your mental models in an increasingly complex world.