Coaching practices for Curate Information Intake

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I just consume whatever the feed decides to put in front of me
• I spend all day marinating in feeds and headlines that only ever show the worst, rarest, most alarming stuff, and then I walk around convinced the world matches that
• I highlight and save almost everything I read "just in case," and now my notes are so bloated that finding anything is harder than just reading the original again
• I admire a lot of people’s work and consume a ton of it, but it just washes over me and never feeds back into anything I make
• I eat the meal, hear the music, walk the beautiful place, but it all stays oddly flat and surface-level

Practices that may help

1. Design a media diet with explicit inclusion criteria
   Specify in advance what media you will consume, from which sources, and for how long — rather than consuming whatever the algorithm serves.
   The Attention Economy: Reclaiming Your Focus from Systems Designed to Capture It
2. Track your information exposure and adjust for its biases
   What you see most is not what happens most — audit your information diet.
   The Availability Heuristic: Why Memorable Feels Probable
3. Capture what resonates — not everything
   Save notes, highlights, and ideas only when they genuinely spark something — not out of obligation.
   Building a Second Brain (BASB), Made Practical
4. Collect your influences deliberately
   Curate the artists, ideas, and work you love — your taste is the raw material you will recombine.
   Steal Like an Artist, in Practice
5. Sharpen your senses to deepen the experience
   Deliberately tune into one sensory channel at a time to get more from a pleasurable experience.
   Savoring the Moment, Made Practical
6. Diversify creative inputs: consume across domains and outside your taste
   Read, watch, listen to work that you do not immediately like — outside-taste input breaks the feedback loop that narrows creative range over time.
   The Beginner’s Mind in Creative Practice
7. Sharpening perception and blocking distraction
   Heighten one sense and shut out interruptions to intensify a good experience.
   Savoring: Getting More From the Good
8. Manage your inputs and influences
   Curate what you consume and who surrounds you — small inputs compound too.
   The Compound Effect, Made Practical
9. Try reading deprivation
   Briefly cut off input consumption to surface your own creative impulses.
   The Artist’s Way, Made Practical
10. Share advice with permission (ask–offer–ask)
    Ask what they know, offer information with consent, then ask what they make of it.
    Motivational Interviewing, Made Practical

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