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In an interesting game of blog ping-pong, Richard at Shards of Consciousness posted an article inspired by one of mine and now I’m posting one inspired by that one of his. Confused?

Richard discusses something that has niggled me for a while. Information overload. He says:

I read once that 5 - 10 minutes of reading should be balanced by 30 - 60 minutes of thought about what you read. I wouldn’t agree with these exact proportions, but for every little bit of reading you do, do a lot of thinking. Be selective in what you read. Take time to digest it. You’ll find that you’re less stressed and have more time to actually do something, and may even learn that you’ve been avoiding yourself and your own life by your frenetic attempts to read what others have to say.

Read source article: » Think About What You Read

RSS feeds have meant even more time is wasted reading news and information than ever before. RSS readers giver you the ability to easily monitor tens or hundreds of websites. For example, I have 114 newsfeeds in my news reader. Many are for sourcing articles for Go Play AV, so I don’t actually read them. But there’s still probably several dozen that are just to stay informed.

But I don’t have the time to read them all. And, as Richard suggests, I shouldn’t be. There is only so much time you should spend “researching”.

If I took Richard’s quote above to the letter… I’d be spending several hours deep in thought. Shame you can’t make a living from that!

As a blogger, I’d be inclined to grant you that time in thought can be time spent writing as well.

How much time should you spend reading? And how much writing?

How long is a piece of string? How much money do you want to make from blogging? How many readers do you want?

Assuming you are writing original content, the only thing I would say, is you should spend more time writing than reading if you really want to be successful by whatever stick you measure success with.

If you’re not, then you’re probably just a commentator, and your posts are not long enough, or there’s not enough of them.

Currently on my blogs because of my study commitments I’ve cut back and aren’t writing the longer posts or the quantity. I’m ok with that. I accept that it is below the level I need to make a success of this. But for me, the important thing is to keep my blogs active while I’m studying.

Don’t over read, or over inform yourself. Put your time into your writing.

Reading is activity.

Writing is productivity.

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