Most people do not consume content deliberately. They just click on whatever moves through their feed.

Deliberate consumption means you consume what you decide on beforehand. If you consume less and are intentional about it, you'll get more out of the content you consume.

Intentional attention = focus x time

This means that if you maximise your time spent focusing, you will maximise your intentional attention. Doing that will maximise the success of your knowledge work.

Instead of optimising an unhealthy and outdated method,...

Overcoming the cognition crisis partly depends on getting around our mind’s automatic pleasure-seeking . Internally, we can avoid falling into the trap of instant gratification by being mindful of the informa...