Someone asked me the other day about the death of the Queen.
I replied,
“Oh shes dead? I don’t really care anyways”
There was an alarmed expression on my friend’s face.
Then I blankly followed with my approach to how I view media in today’s age.
Call me ‘Selectively Ignorant’.
I only choose to consume information that I am genuinely curious about as well as know I can derive value in my pursuits.
I think we all know, that we live in a time where information is abundant.
So accessible and fast that we don’t know what to do with it.
So I ignore most of it. Why?
Because my attention is important.
This quote summarizes it well;
“Where my attention goes, energy flows”
Listening, reading, watching, or sitting in spaces take up my valuable resource – attention.
From experience, I find that most contents fed to you [while scrolling] is an ad 30% of the time.
As a result, we have made the collective conscious hyper-vigilant to promoted content and only skim-read others.
Hence I specially curate what I consume. Filtering out all nonsense that I have no control over. Keeping my mind light.
Some information without realizing it has an emotional tone that can affect you.
Words themselves hold energetic meaning.
Meaning, that if you consume uplifting, light, cheerful, or provoking content you absorb that energy.
The opposite is also true.
Some recommendations on content channels that I have been consuming:
- Paid medium → I recently subscribed to the paid membership to access specific writers I enjoy.
- Youtube channels → I avoid the home page, because of the lethal algo traps
- Aljazeera → Generally diverse and full coverage on events happening outside of mainstream newsworthy networks
- Instagram → accounts that motivate me, keep tabs on close friends
- Twitter → accounts that I am inspired as well as building relationships with
The war for your attention continues and will only become more ruthless in capturing your mind to bend to another will.
Protect your energy, mind, and soul, and consume what is aligned with you.
