How The Content Diet Improves Chris's Work Life (Online Read)

HOW THE CONTENT DIET IMPROVES CHRIS’S WORK LIFE

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The Guy From Love Island

Chris is an English podcaster, YouTuber and former television personality. That’s what I copy and pasted from Google.

I’m more familiar with his Modern Wisdom podcast, where he uses his super sick English accent to interview people. And he’s pretty damn good at it too.

He’s talked to so many successful people and learned a lot, but he also has his own findings as he moves through life. One of them being what we’re discussing today. 

And what better way to start it off, then with a banger quote that will leave you questioning why the hell you don’t take this more seriously. 

“If you think that your body is made up of what you put into your mouth, your mind's made up of things you put into your eyes and ears.

And your content diet should be spirulina for the soul, not fast food for the amygdala.”

The Problem With Content

Here’s why content kinda sucks. Content is like a library. You’re scrolling through, perhaps with no intention. Just looking for a good read. 

You finally land on a book, and start reading. The place where the library and content differ though, is that there’s infinite content. 

There will always be more for you to consume. Well, I guess that case could be made for books right? 

Then let’s put it this way. Imagine a library, but as you read your book, people were slowly sliding books across the table.

“Read this one, it’s better,” someone whispers. It is a library after all. 

“No, this one is funnier. Do we really need to watch this? I mean look at the cover, it looks hilarious,” whispers someone else. 

That’s content in a nutshell. The other problem? 

Open loops. When you read a book, it’s one long story that you piece together.

Content on the other hand, is one of the only places you can go from watching “How To Scale A Business to $100M A Year” to silly cat videos, and then forget both of them 10 minutes later. 

Not only is content like a library. It’s also kinda like food. 

Brain Food

A lot of people forget that consuming content all day is…well a daily practice for most. 

If it’s able to be a part of our everyday lives, we ought to give it some thought. I mean if we meditated daily, worked out daily, worked on our business daily, etc., we’d be doing pretty well off. 

But sometimes it may be the case that your screen time slips in as more of a priority than all those other things. 

Now, not all content is bad. Is it better to be actually doing things insteads of consuming? Sure. But let’s not pretend we can’t find some good stuff online. 

Podcasts with some of the greatest minds of our present day, new strategies and tactics for workouts or for your business, and other things the kids view these days. 

What we need to do here is take a look at our diet. What “food” have we been shoveling down our throats? Is it resourceful? Has it helped you in any way?

The 2 Diets

When you finish a salad, or a steak, or whatever the heck is healthy since there are so many split opinions these days, you feel good. 

When you finish a bag of Doritos and a nice Mountain Dew, a gamer’s stereotypical classic, it’s not exactly the same. 

Even if you do feel similar in energy because food is fuel, the long-term effects are horrible. I’m placing my bets on who lives longer on the first hypothetical person, not the Doritos and Mountain Dew person. 

So best case, you feel okay after consuming the shit food, but long term you cut a few years off the ‘ol lifespan. No biggie. 

It’s the same with content. What you consume may be bad. It may even make you feel bad, like the Doritos and Mountain Dew, when you know real foods would make you feel better. 

But the more subtle killer is when the food doesn’t feel like it’s done any harm, but it’s doing the harm nonetheless. 

Think about how rewarding watching videos of Donald Trump and Biden playing Minecraft while fighting are. No regrets at all watching those. They feel good. I feel good after I watch it too. 

But long term? We’re looking like the Doritos and Mountain Dew guy.

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