What if, for an experiment, for several days stop listening to music, podcasts, audiobooks? In information silence.
I’m storing a lot of information not backed by a practice. “Dead knowledge”. From this perspective, it seems strange to acquire new information, that is not required by a practice.
Information must be digested to become knowledge. If you have a bias towards getting new information, rather than digesting it, you may end up with a lot of noise that obscures clear thinking. To digest - to apply practice, earn experience, reflect, understand, and, most importantly, to find a place for acquired information in your life/consciousness.
I start an experiment of information diet to prove this theory: