How Your Content Consumption Habits Will Change After You Start a Business

Nik Business, Productivity, Quora, Reading, Work

Here are all the blogs I read almost daily before starting a business:

  • Videofruit
  • OkDork
  • The 4-Hour Workweek
  • QuickSprout
  • Neil Patel
  • ConversionXL
  • Backlinko
  • Nathan Barry
  • Goins Writer
  • Ramit Sethi
  • James Altucher
  • Zenhabits

Here are all the blogs I read almost daily since starting a business:

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When it comes to business, 95% of your reading is a waste of time. Those 5% are better invested into a book, rather than a blog.

  • A biography of a founder you want to be like.
  • The strategy of someone at the same crossroads as you.
  • Study the history of your industry.

You always have a gut feeling about what decision you should take when it comes to business. Spend your time dancing with that gut feeling and using your rationale to probe it, rather than reading and hoping someone else will confirm it for you. Decide fast, embrace the decision and suck up the failure that follows.

Most businesses fail due to a lack of doing, not a lack of reading.

Better yet, start a business around content creation. Eventually, you’ll have so much fun creating content that you’ll stop consuming it, so you have more time to make your own.

Nik

Niklas Göke writes for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. A self-taught writer with more than a decade of experience, Nik has published over 2,000 articles. His work has attracted tens of millions of readers and been featured in places like Business Insider, CNBC, Lifehacker, and many others. Nik has self-published 2 books thus far, most recently 2-Minute Pep Talks. Outside of his day job and daily blog, Nik loves reading, video games, and pizza, which he eats plenty a slice of in Munich, Germany, where he resides.