I often have this predicament where I'm collecting self help material like books, videos, articles, podcast. It's like an ocean out there with self help stuff.  Randomly going through this is a very arduous process, not to mention extremely time consuming.  Often I watch a video or a read a book and halfway through realize that it's not too useful in my scenario, maybe useful in general or useful to someone else but not useful to me, it's nice to gain that knowledge but it's not specifically applicable to my issues and needs and situations.  So it becomes redundant for me and I feel in the end like it was simply a waste of time watching that video or reading that book.  I want to avoid this. I want to be able to read/watch devour only that information which is essential and optimized for my general self help needs so I don't feel like I'm investing or wasting too much time reading random self help material.  What are some suggestions you can give me so that I'm only consuming more of the essential and useful stuff