I've found great success, and great benefit, by using the following approach. I haven't thought it through systematically and organized it, so my apologies for

I've found great success, and great benefit, by using the following approach. I haven't thought it through systematically and organized it, so my apologies for its long-winded, rambling form: 1) Your time is highly, irremediably constrained. Someone said: You inherited a free bank account but it holds all the funds you'll ever own. You'll never have more and you must withdraw daily. 2) Information was also constrained for the 7 million years of our brains' evolution from proto-chimps; then about 25 years ago that changed and information is now infinite. Our brains are not designed for it. 3) Infinite information : highly constrained time, do the math: Now we must be choosy where we invest our limited funds. In fact, we must reject 99.999...% of information simply because of the information:time ratio. 4) Sellers competing in that space, for your attention, have learned to push your emotional buttons every effectively; it's hard to pull away. Learn to read that internal response as the feeling of BS and manipulation, of wasted time and future regret - you're missing out, wasting your precious funds, and spinning your wheels: Even casual misinformation is a waste of time: feeling sick, you look up your symptoms and read some social media and follow the misinformation; the next day you're no healthier (or you're worse); you've done nothing. 99.9% of information is BS - it's that bad, really; our brains can't seem to comprehend it, but it's true (imho). And of the remaining 0.01%, you don't have time for 99.9% of even that. 5) You have better things to do, much better things. The availability of extremely high value (EHV) knowledge, the top 0.0..1%, also has been transformed: You can access almost all of it, the best of almost any human, any place and any time, almost immediately; you don't nearly have time for it all. Imagine having investments with enormous returns, far more such investments than you have money for - that's the situation with your limited time and EHV knowledge. Why would you even spend a moment considering lesser investments? The high value information is beautiful; it's stirring; it transforms your vision of the world (don't settle for less!); the insights fly beyond your vision or conception; it's breathtaking to see - and to see another human perform it; and it's actually pretty true, which is not an easy thing to do. ... Be goal-oriented not reactive. Grow, don't survive (surviving is treading water - or spinning your wheels). It feels like I've created a neural pathway where I feel like I don't have enough time for the beautiful, EHV stuff; and time spent on anything less is resented, wasted, tries my patience. I feel like my time for such wonderful things is passing me by. (Of course I also have other needs and do other things.) (By EHV, I mean read Plato or MLK or Einstein the seminal papers and books in modern AI. Don't read someone's social media hot-take about them or their topics; don't even read a professional's interpretation; life is far too short. Read the Torah or Quran or Gospels. Look at the books and art that has transformed domains or the world. Hurry - you are missing out.) Also, a bit tangentially: Don't let current social norms, the current tides, limit you. This knowledge and beauty is eternal; the truth was the truth yesterday, when everyone accepted it; is the truth today when they ridicule it; and it will be the truth again tomorrow when they've moved on.