# Be Honest: How Much Time Do You Spend Consuming Information? - Tiago Forte Synced: [[2023_11_30]] 6:03 AM Last Highlighted: [[2023_09_16]]  ## Highlights [[2023_09_16]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01haek26mfvm574b50hf8j85ab) > We have learned through painful experience that **access to information makes no difference** . In fact, consuming more and more information only increases the paradox of choice, making it difficult to make any decision because our options never stop proliferating. [[2023_09_16]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01haek2ket6585949764jvy7n3) > **Knowledge is only power when we use it.** When we forge it into a hammer and strike at the problem, the challenge, or the bottleneck that is keeping us from the future we desperately seek. Learning something is only the first step – and the last step if we don’t do something with it.