95% of content consumption is procrastination disguised as productivity.
Most people waste hundreds of hours consuming “just-in-case” content because it’s “interesting.”
Instead, you should consume "just-in-time" to answer a question keeping you from moving forward.
95% of content consumption is procrastination disguised as productivity. Most people waste hundreds of hours consuming “just-in-case” content because it’s “interesting.” Instead, you should consume "just-in-time" to answer a question keeping you from moving forward.
More information is just a form of procrastination.
Stewart John added
all the content you consume online and through all the different kinds of media you have at your disposal isn’t useless. It’s incredibly important and valuable. The only problem is that you’re often consuming it at the wrong time.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
“Procrastinating on something important is choosing to delay a better future.”
James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com
Isaac Feldman added
frequently hear myself telling people that I just don’t have enough time to read deeply anymore—“the kids!”, “the startup!”—but if I picked up a book instead of reflexively opening Twitter every couple of hours, I’m sure I would have read my way through a library in the last 10 years.
Hamish McKenzie • Time to read
“Is your reading and research supplementing your actions or substituting for them? Research is useful until it becomes a form of procrastination.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: The value of questions, the power of small acts, and how life rewards courage
Kyle Steinike added
If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Consuming online content makes us feel like we're learning, but 90% of the content is useless junk—small talk, clickbait, marketing—which crowds out actual info from our minds. As such, we feel we're getting smarter as we get stupider.
Gurwinder • The 10 Best Ideas I Learned in 2022
sari added