The Content You Consume Becomes Your RealityBy Steven Maxwell Im a ravenous consumer of content. I bet you are, too. If we are what we eat, for better or worse, the content we consume becomes our reality. It becomes the story we tell ourselves, the principles we believe in, and it may even determine our health. Some content is detrimental and some is beneficial. Because were bombarded with information from every direction, its never been more important to carefully curate what we consume. Practically everything we observe and experience now seems to be content. From music, movies, books, news, politics, gossip, work, friend feeds and texts, even to our immediate surroundings like how our homes are decorated. Sometimes the noise and choices canget overwhelming. This overload is like decision fatigue. Steve Jobs popularized the idea of decision fatigue when he chose to wear the same outfit of clothing every day to eliminate wardrobe decisions from his daily decision bank. Decision fatigue describes when we make too many decisions in too short a time, we significantly reduce our decision-making ability. The video below is an excellent explanation of decision fatigue and its potential effects: Some common effectsfrom decision fatigue are losing self-control over things you normally refrain from doing, decision paralysis, or beginning to avoid making decisions altogether. Significantly, life starts happening to you instead of for you. High performers like Steve Jobs require life to happen for them, not to them. But like the James Allen quote above says, the mind will grow harmful weeds if not deliberately cultivated. These weeds can be damaging.They seem to manifest as stress or anxiety which can lead to a host of mental and physical ailments. And much like decision fatigue, we seem to lose room for critical thought and productive ideas to blossom. For me the flood of content I was consuming caused me anxiety. I was in my mad-as-hell stage of awakening and I was rabidly rage-clicking on endless reels of content that confirmed my rage.I thought being awake meant if you arent angry, you arent paying attention. But I was wrong. Then I had a simple epiphany: the best way to better the world around me is to better myself.I was responsible for the content I consumed and how it made me feel. I realized that I was planting the wrong seeds in my mind and they were producing choking weeds. The rage I felt toward the machine dramatically subsided. As a Man Thinketh was instrumental in shaping this epiphany. Listen to it for free below. Upon focusing my thoughts to more fruitful purposes, my life started getting better. Suddenly it made sense that this strategy, individually, would be far more effective activism than merely raging against the machine. Dont get me wrong, I think its healthy to be angry at the right things. But when were experiencing information overload, its all too easy to become angry over trivial differences in tribalism, for example. So the next time you catch yourself tempted to click on rage clickbait, ask yourself if thats the type of garden you want to cultivate in your mind. Does rage make your life better? What will? Now youre awake. Steven Maxwell writes for selfnews Post. This article is free to be shared in full with attribution and source link. And then, I read THIS piece! I certainly agree, very useful insight in this excellent article. Isnt it interesting, how in the days leading up to this recent DALLAS COP SHOOTING, the focus of the Main Stream Media (MSM) was on Hitlary Clinton and her emails/crimes, and how Comey of the FBI basically gave her a FREE PASS, or GET-OUT-OF-GOING-TO-JAIL-FREE card, then, suddenly, this SHOOTING OF COPS IN DALLAS, turns the entire MSM (Main Stream Media) focus AWAY FROM HITLARY? CNN Immediately Seizes Upon Dallas Massacre To Target 2nd Amendment? NO SURPRISE THERE, for anyone INFORMED, REALLY paying attention. Hey, lets first kill two innocent black minorities in cold blood as a pretext to conduct a Black-(Covert)-Op to kill five policemen and wound 7 others The False Flag PSYOPS never stop and will only intensify until the election, if there even is a presidential election! Obama Does Dallas To Distract From Comey Debacle How quickly the MSM focus went from Hitlary Clintons crimes the FBI, to the Dallas shootings. How convenient. And the book Crises of Character on Billary, its release was overshadowed by that crock also. HillBillary and the rest of the worthless slime are above the Rule of law. So just us poor common folk pay the price of incarceration and or fines. Common sense is still common sense. 