A short YouTube monologue (creator: Nate Tilley) arguing that excessive information consumption prevents people from taking action and creating wealth. The speaker emphasizes that knowledge alone is not power—applied knowledge (wisdom) is power—and urges viewers to stop passive consumption and start creating and taking imperfect action.
More dreams are killed by people not taking action than there are by people taking imperfect violent action every single day because there is too much information. People get a great release of dopamine by learning shit that they're never ever going to use, and because they are constantly in a state of consumption, they never produce or create anything. Knowledge is not power. Applied knowledge is wisdom, and wisdom is power. And you actually need to go out there and take action on the information that it is that you're consuming. Consuming for you to ever be able to render that information and process it and turn it into wealth for yourself. You can learn incredible skills by consuming the right information, but you can never really get wealthy by just consuming. You have to create.
