I estimate that the ratio of useless to relevant reading material is about twenty to one. With that in mind, my advice it to reduce the literary inflow to a maximum of two newspapers a day, two weekly magazines, and two publications in a specialized field. Get off distribution lists. The reward will be an opportunity to engage in that underappreciated occupation, contemplation.
Itâ??s funny that almost everyone I know is running on nothing or drowning themselves in information. At what point does self-improvement stop paying off? At what point to you start relying more on what you read to make your decisions for you? At what point to you forget how to think for yourself?
Orâ?Š At itâ??s worst. At what point do you realize the world has changed while you werenâ??t paying attention at all.