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Five Strategies to Discover Top Quality Content
The content you consume is vital to your writing.
Whether you’re writing personal stories about your life, guidelines and practical tips, or about theoretical ideas, it’s crucial that you’re digesting the right content to support having the highest quality ideas.
Remember the last time you found one book that unlocked ten different article ideas?
We need more of that.
Curating your content diet so you can find these nuggets of gold is key.
Finding the content that sparks ideas
The specific content that ignites ideas is different for everyone, but there’s a process you can follow to find the best content for you:
1. Leave books and other long form content behind fast
Some books won’t serve you.
Some podcasts don’t dive as deep as you need.
No matter how compelling the title, some are so abstract that, even though they’re done by experts, they may not land with you the way you’d hoped they would.
It’s important not to get in the mindset that “I have to finish all the books I read.”
