How navigating the content abundance can change our life?

Hi friends, let’s discover how navigating the abundance of content can potentially change our life.

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9 Live By Laws for Success in Business - by Nicolas Cole

In “9 Live By Laws for Success in Business“, Nicolas Cole teaches us how to tackle our content consumption by strictly regulating it. For him, content should be consumed solely with a focus on its output, pushing us to ask ourselves, what are we trying to achieve when selecting the content we consume.

By building the habit of identifying the expected impact of the content on us and including it in our decision criteria to pick any content piece, we are ultimately asking ourselves: “Who will I be after I consumed this?

Knowing when to start and knowing when to stop is essential. Nicolas adds that reading and consuming content should be stopped when “you know what you need to do”. It’s easy to recall times where we felt something clicked after reading or listening one particular sentence, making it all come together.

When what needed to be done has been executed, the feeling of accomplished duty becomes immeasurable. By following the author guidance we become able to completely focus on the content’s output and are arming ourselves to navigate the abundance of content in our life.

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I’ve had an Epiphany - by Ali Abdaal

Ali Abdaal shares how we interact with content can change our life.
He explains how reading a book can change the way he behaves, therefore can change his life. Though the impact of the content we consume is sometimes neglected and for the author it comes down to the way we engage with the material supporting the content.

Consuming content gently, in a physical form, with a book and an highlighter for example is unlike any common fast or “blitz-reading” for the author. “The slowness of the reading combines with the slowness of highlighting” is making a great difference on how he engaged with the content.

Specific things enables a gentle consumption, taking the time to react and think after one specific paragraph or sentence is one of them. For Ali, asking questions like “do I agree with this?” or “How could I apply this to my life?”is the opportunity to actually engage with the content rather than consume it.

The author concludes by advising on reading “more physical books, more slowly” and adopting the right process of engagement as this is the only way to find its true value.

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Nicolas’ post explained how our content consumption should start and stop, by looking at the value extracted from it where accessing this content value is the focus of Ali’s writing with his “slow engagement” methodology.

And there is where the dots connect!

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