# Media Diet **Domain:** Behavioral science / Media / Character formation **Doc Type:** Canonical concept node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A media diet is the recurring pattern of information, entertainment, relationships, and experiences a person admits into attention. ## Mechanism and Significance Repeated inputs influence salience, expectation, emotional tone, vocabulary, habits, and the models through which a person interprets events. Changing the pattern can change what the mind rehearses and makes readily available. ## Evidence Boundary People are not passive products of content. Prior beliefs, social conditions, agency, and critical reflection mediate every influence. ## Relationships [[wiki/Self-Awareness|Self-Awareness]] · [[wiki/Social Control|Social Control]] · [[wiki/Cognitive Agency|Cognitive Agency]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “People become what they consume. Media, relationships, experiences, and ideas form a kind of diet that shapes character. Upgrading that diet upgrades the person.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Opening Your Genius Through Language, Abstraction, and Manifesting - Livestream (Jan 2016)* [[reminders/Identity/People Become What They Consume by Bryant McGill|People Become What They Consume by Bryant McGill]]