Making Distinctions Between High Quality Content and Low Quality Content

[ZenSwift]

Which tools and techniques do you utilize to effectively prioritize and focus on the most important information?

For context, I am an individual with reading lists that are a mile long. So for me the most important thing to focus on is setting my priorities straight such that I'm not wasting my time on the wrong thing. 

The goal of this thread is to explicitize the process upon which you organise what you should focus on next. One thing I have noticed is that every single year I am focussing on more and more of the correct things. But then I asked myself the question, could I explicitize this siloing process on a meta-level? Such that once it’s made explicit I will be able to skyrocket my intent and my growth.

 

There's different ways to prioritise information such as clarifying your focus towards explicitly defined goals. This is great. There’s other ways to assess information based on assessing the teacher's psychological development. But is there something more?

 

I feel like your ability to intuitively gauge the quality of content is based on how intelligent you are. (And I mean Leo’s definition of intelligence, not IQ) I feel like I have an implicit internal barometer that allows me to differentiate content that is valuable to me right now and stuff that isn't. This filter becomes way better as I read more and become more clear about my goals.