When it comes to learning information, there is a lot of noise. If you don't believe that, just open Twitter. How do you cut through the noise and get what you want to get? What is the maple syrup principle? That's what Reagan and Austin discuss in this episode, how to find that distilled knowledge without wasting your time in all the noise. A large part of this is going directly to the source of the knowledge. 

Figure out how to get information by going directly to the source. Go to the distilled refined places for your information. This allows you to be more efficient with your research, while at the same time learning more information. To make maple syrup, you have to boil 40 gallons of syrup to make one gallon of the good stuff. When it comes to knowledge it would be exhausting if that's the approach needed. Much better to go to the core for the diamond while the rest chip on the lump of coal. 

Experts are amazing at filtering information. A large part of doing this is learning what the core principles of your life are. What drives you? What is most important to you? What are your values? When that is learned it makes filtering information and tasks so much easier. Also discussed in this episode is applying the 80/20 rule to our information diet. You don't put maple sap on your pancakes. The stuff you are ingesting needs to be well worth your brain. We need a rich information diet, not a noisy diet.

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