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.
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
Consume old stuff when you're young and new stuff when you're old. This is the opposite of what most people do
David Perell • Tweet
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
“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
Getting really great is a waste of time.
Nat Eliason • How to Get Insanely Rich in the Creator Economy
If you find yourself looking for a tool to solve a problem, you’re probably just procrastinating.