What works for me: - Write out bad ideas on spare paper to get them out of your head. - Write out good/private ideas into a diary, like a conversation or jour

What works for me: - Write out bad ideas on spare paper to get them out of your head. - Write out good/private ideas into a diary, like a conversation or journal you have with yourself. Any non-practical information you want to keep in your head should be organized. Opinions, theories, and whatever should be threads that are tied down to some mental storage device, (a mental map) or a software solution (excel doc). After a while you start to see patterns in the media you're receiving and it becomes less mentally taxing to watch. The desire to self improve is not a goal. It is a desire. Overheating with desire, cannot help you to move forward. I'd focus on conserving one meaning or something you can see, and dodge the idea that you're going to mentally generate a good direction out of the infinite slew of media inputs to your life. I don't think you (or anyone) can outsmart the problem of self improvement.