This post is for those who want to do something greater. Create. Be their own employer. Make more money…
Be less of a pawn in a game rigged out of the box.
Junk food for the mind
It’s 2025.
Billions are doom scrolling away on their various rectangular mind-control prison devices – and most of this “information” is junk food for the mind.
Scrolling on your phone or tablet is kind of like going to the Golden Corral. You leave entirely too bloated – even sickly. (And deeply ashamed, of course.)
Opening TikTok is like reaching for frosted animal circus cookies instead of a gala apple. One vertical scroll equals one cookie (20 calories). Five swipes in, and you’re already at a hundo.
But there’s a catch.
The quality of input we consume is everything.
Example list of bad, debatable, and ideal input
These aren’t absolute (who would I be to make a definitive list). They can, of course, vary from person to person. But I think it’s a solid start. What do you think?
Bad: weaponized soul-sucking materialism
- Taylor Swift
- Listening to anything on the billboard charts
- All mainstream news outlets
- 90% of social media (including X)
- Most podcasts
- Netflix
- Junk food
- Fashion trends
- Porn
- Listening to stupid people repeat what they consumed on social media
- Basically anything that TAKES from your time and gives zero value (arbitrary information is not value)
Debatable: guilty pleasures (sometimes you gotta take a load off)
- Professional sports (including NCAA) minus the commercials
- Good observationalist comedy (i.e., Tim Dillon)
- Any hobby that brings enjoyment
- YouTube videos that interest us
- Classic rock
Ideal: a better life
- YouTube / paid online learning videos to learn a beneficial skill
- Books that teach us marketable skills or self-improvement
- Practicing skills that are marketable
- Healthy food and supplements
- Learning a foreign language
- Learning how to improve relationships
- Activities you can skill up and get good at (i.e., paddleboarding, running, darts, an instrument, rapping fast)
You might wonder, “Hey, why is Tay Tay in the really bad category 😤 and not sports!” Because she is objectively less talented than many other amazing musicians and entertainers.
Athletes, on the other hand, have to prove themselves through years of rigorous competition, and their athleticism can be objectively measured.
Anyway… let’s focus on the good inputs. Notice anything? It’s all mostly learning. And not just learning anything… but inputs that directly affect the quality of output you can offer.
Example: Input Korean grammar book. Output 100x with the ability to go to Korea and speak with locals, make friends more easily, date more comfortably, and get a job or start a business in Korea, all while opening up an entirely new world and society in your life.
Huge return.
Wild-guess ratio
Let’s make an unscientific estimate: if you want to be a producer (creator) leaving an impression on the world more than the world leaves an impression on you, you need 25% input / 75% output.
Whatever the ratio, the point is to stick to books that help you become better. Use your phone sparingly. And when you do, make sure it’s used mainly for output, not input – you should be outputting 3x of what you’re inputting.
Your soul is like a pack of gushers
The world is desperately fighting for your attention, which you should treat like gushers at the ’90s – 00’s grade school lunch table (Defensively. For those who never took to this childhood crack).
Choose your inputs wisely and strictly utilize them to get the necessary information to create valuable output.
And yes, they’re junk food, but… I mean, come on, they’re gushers.
Not for everyone
If you don’t want to be a creator, that’s absolutely fine. In fact, most people aren’t meant to be creators. Otherwise, who would input the things the outputters produced?
As this is an entrepreneurial-minded website and blog, this post is more for those who feel they want to be more but aren’t meeting their expectations.
Point is: if you DO want to be more, start producing more work NOW.
Ditch the fear of failure
Someone will always criticize your output (one of the main reasons why many live in frozen input states). But guess what? Those who criticize you are most likely… you guessed it. Victims of too much input.
So they criticize through a distorted lens those actually trying to output. It’s envy and insecurity. Plain and simple.
Forget them. Laser focus. Protect your gushers.
Get out there and output
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