This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work left, and do more.

Think that you should read that well-written, a high-quality article your friend just shared on social media?

Think again. It might be a huge waste of time. Rather than reading any interesting article that just happens to cross your path,

make a conscious learning plan. I lost my own clickbait virginity to upworthy. Oh, they were

great at hijacking my mind. They would send me 10 psychologically manipulative headlines an hour,

and you'll be shocked when you hear about number six. These days, the problem isn't clickbait.

It's high-quality content.

Too much of it.

Way too much.

When you find articles on topics you love, you read them.

Science, health, wellness, fitness, cooking.

The politics you follow as a concerned citizen and all of your other hobbies and interests.

You may have learned to resist the low-quality direct, like Billy Bob's Real Truth

Conspiracy blog, but that doesn't mean that what you do read is the best use of your time.

There are six ways to make the most of your online reading with a learning plan.

One, separate quality writing from useful writing.

When clickbait tricks you, you know that you're being hijacked, but high quality content feels meaningful. You read articles about the Big Bang,

someone's around the world diary blog, an essay on poultry farming conditions. Maybe there is

such a thing as too much roast duck. Each one is fun when it shows up, but after 10 years of reading, I found that it adds up to nothing.

The articles inform you, but they were chosen to get you to engage, not to help you become

who you want to become.

What if you chose your own topics?

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