<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Consumption is never cognitively empty. Stories,... > Consumption is never cognitively empty. Stories, interfaces, jokes, rankings, and repeated images supply examples from which the mind learns what is normal, admirable, threatening, desirable, or possible. **Source:** [[livestreams/Directed Attention and the Discipline of Creation - Workbook|Directed Attention and the Discipline of Creation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Consumption is never cognitively empty. Stories, interfaces, jokes, rankings, and repeated images supply examples from which the mind learns what is normal, admirable, threatening, desirable, or possible.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-consumption-never-cognitively-threatening-desirable-possible ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->