MBA1015 Q&A Wednesday: How much time should I spend consuming content?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Marketing

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Content: there’s plenty of it out there.

Much of it can help you grow as an entrepreneur. With the wealth of online educational resources available today, you could spend your whole day learning about business and your own industry. Without setting foot in a business school, you can learn more from your laptop than many have in universities.

But when does learning about business start to detract from actually doing business?

Today, we discuss the limits of content consumption. Professional development is a worthy endeavor, but you’ve got to balance it against your other responsibilities. Otherwise, the ROI shoots right into the negative.

We have a formula for consumption that works for us, with exact allowances of time that are firm, but flexible. There is a such thing as too much content. In fact, the human brain can only learn so much before it’s no longer useful to keep reading or listening.

Tune in, and find out exactly how to balance learning with doing. Click Play!

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0:15.8	Heyo! Welcome to the 100 R&B show, the business podcast that makes the most out of your daily commute, with our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world.
0:18.9	I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar is in home.
0:22.4	I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business
0:26.1	training and community online over at 100 MBA.net.
0:31.4	And today's episode is a Q&A Wednesday episode.
0:34.2	On our Q&A Wednesday episodes, I answer a question from you.
0:37.7	One of our listeners.
0:39.1	Today's questions from Paul, and Paul asks,
0:41.9	how much time should I spend consuming content?
0:45.0	That's a great question, Paul.
0:46.4	We all want to get better as entrepreneurs,
0:48.9	but we want to find that right balance between production and consumption.
0:53.2	In today's lesson I'm going to be answering this question.
0:55.2	I'm also going to be defining learning because you can learn without consuming content,
1:02.1	as well as how I've kind of worked out my own formula when it comes to balancing out how much content I should be absorbing, I should be taking on, I should be consuming every day, as well as how much time I should be spending
1:14.6	actually implementing what I'm work. I get into all that in today's episode so let's
1:19.0	get into it let's get down to business. Today's episode of the $100 MBA show is supported by Earth Class Mail.
1:29.9	If you run a business, you need a business address. But it doesn't mean you need to open up a business, do you need a business address?
1:32.6	But it doesn't mean you need to open up a business office.
1:35.7	You can work from home.
1:36.9	And Earthclass mail can hook you up with a business address and scan all your mail
1:41.8	and upload it to your account in the cloud so you can check all your
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