Blueprint >> Information Intake

Disclaimer: This document is in raw form as I process and distill 4 years-worth of my personal development notes. Expect some typos and cryptic language for now. I will be updating frequently and polishing up.

Prescription: Monitor your information intake.
Related Concepts: Consciousness, Read, Life-Long Learning

What is Information Intake?

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Why is it Important?

Feeding yourself low-quality information means low-quality source material from which to create. Low-quality information makes you reactive, negative, and low-consciousness.

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Information Intake: Key Points

Information in equals information out. 1 If you feed your mind low-grade data, how do you expect a high-grade output? If you want to be a creative person, working out of your Zone of Genius, and sharing your gift with the world, you need to carefully control everything that you allow to enter and influence your mind. On a practical level this means: no TV news, no cable TV, no negative newspapers, no tabloids, no Facebook, no Twitter, no mindless internet browsing, no gossip, no pessimistic friends. Instead, feed your mind high-quality sources of data: non-fiction books, classic literature, documentaries, school, lectures, seminars, trade journals, positive friends, etc.

High-quality sources feed you with information that is: true, accurate, holistic, complex, scientific, psychological, artistic, something you can act on, promotes thinking and high-consciousness, positive, empowering.

Why cut out news?

• "The world of people goes up and down and people go up and down with their world; warriors have no business following the ups and downs of their fellow men." ² You need to stop reacting to the other external world. Watching news makes you only more reactive.

References

1. 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, Steve Chandler
2. The Wheel of Time, Carlos Castaneda