How your counsumption pattern defines who you are. In simple terms - You are what you consume.

Over the years, as we grow and evolve our understanding of the world. We consume information and content from various sources - on the internet, watching something IRL, observing other people behavior and more.

The consumption patterns and behvaiors are partly influenced by the environment one is in and exposed to. If you have a friend circle in college which is into gaming, you will naturally be exposed to gaming and generate interest over time leading you to explore gaming. Similarly if you are grown up in a militiary household, you keep hearing about the government affairs with geopolitics and intelligence and military operations being carried out all across the country. This will naturally intrigue your to learn more about militaiary operations and potentially excite and influence you enough that you make a choice and turn it into your career as either a miliartary personnel or a bureaucrat.

A lot of the consumption game, is about the ability to manage and learn from it and make decisions along the way. Content is not just about the ingesting information it then transforms into actual insight that stays with you for a long time and shapes your decision making and also your world view of things.

As human beings, we inherit certain traits genetically while some others we develop as we grow. A lot of the early learnings and teachings kids receive is from parents who feed information hoping it rings a bell in the child to help them create a pattern and apply it on their own.

This constant consumption loop of ingesting, disgesting, and applying information in the real world is the first input of information intake allowing the kid to interpret and understand it in their way and react to it.

Kids in general run in sort of an autopilot mode, slowly picking up pace as they grow and consume more information with better understanding skills. They create a feedback loop which they then use to learn and understand the world.

There are times when kids ask questions that are beyond their purview of understanding but their ability to think and general curiosity shows that they have made progress oftentimes also making the parents think.

People become what they consume, hear, and watch, this maybe one of the reasons why parents told their kids to not watch certain cartoons over others. Weird correlation but is true if you think about it!

Consuming is one thing but the endless flood of information on the internet in this day and age is the main driving force that defines your taste for what you like vs don’t like building a constant in-need-for-consumption mode in your head.

A good test to understand your content preferences would be to observe what you end up watching when you are busy or in a time crunch but need a break from work, etc.

In such situations, with the number of options available, you’ll be very picky as to what you choose helping build an understanding of one’s taste.

Most boomers don’t care about the taste or aesthetics of the content they consume. All they want is information or some new information that they didn’t already know. They will consume the same info packed in different forms but not worry about it being a waste of time. It is a revision for them at this point.

While for Genz and millennials, taste defines what you know and how you perceive the world to function.

Content and consumption patterns hence vary a lot across age groups and also geographies. You have to consume and keep consuming until it finally ends, which will probably outlast most of our existence for now.

And thus the cycle keeps moving.