The Content Diet

Overview

This is the right book at the right time.

We don’t know how Matthew Kelly does it, but he has a gift for peering into the soul of our culture and being able to frame what he sees with startling clarity. In The Content Diet, he names one of the great struggles of our age: we are consuming more content than ever, and most of it is distracting us from the lives we long to be living.

The solution: Better content. Better life.

The moment we read these words we know that they are true. Few authors can capture the essence of their message with such simplicity, force, and practicality. With these, the first four words of his brilliant book, Kelly proposes a solution to what will increasingly become one of the most complex problems of modern life.

Content isn’t merely information, entertainment, or education. It is formation. Our thoughts, desires, habits, emotions, relationships, character, and quality of life are all being formed by the content we consume. Learning how to curate content that will serve the vision you have for your life is an essential life skill. This is the lesson that stands at the heart of The Content Diet.

Kelly encourages us to think of ourselves as curators at a fabulous art gallery. A curator’s job is to select what art is hung in the gallery and arrange it in a way that creates a meaningful experience for the patrons. The gallery is our life and the content we curate determines the quality of our experience.

The best content expands the soul. It helps us grow in wisdom, virtue, compassion, discipline, courage, and joy. The worst content diminishes us. It lowers our standards, distorts our vision, dulls our conscience, and quietly makes us less than we were created to become.

In a world designed to distract, entertain, agitate, and addict us, most people are consuming whatever the algorithm serves up, and then wondering why they feel so empty, anxious, restless, and disconnected from what matters most.

Matthew Kelly is suggesting it is time to order off the menu. The Content Diet provides a roadmap for all those who want to renew their vision of life and pursue it with joyful intentionality.

Better Content. Better Life.

ISBN: 978-1-63582-641-8