Something that helped me was to develop my "discernment" of "quality" so I could quickly reject material that appeared interesting but actually was of little us

Something that helped me was to develop my "discernment" of "quality" so I could quickly reject material that appeared interesting but actually was of little use to me. This is going to be different for each person, but I think it's worth putting some thought into because I had previously assumed I had developed a natural talent for it when actually I was consuming content out of habit.