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Common Time-Wasters And The Way To A Life Without Them
4 min readNov 19, 2021
- TV — One episode turns into two, turns into three and suddenly it’s 4 a.m. and you didn’t do anything all day… Whoops.
- Movies — Similar to watching TV, one movie can turn into 2, 3, 8 and before you know it time has gone by with you having done nothing.
- Video Games — “Just one round of LoL/CSGO/Fortnite/ Hearthstone/etc. and then I will work.” Anyone who ever played a video game knows that you won’t stop after 1 round.
- Books — You may just want to read for 30 minutes, and reading doesn’t seem so bad, but, just like with anything else, too much reading also comes at a cost.
- Daydreaming — Whether it is about a past event you would like to change, a future event you would like to go a certain way or a fantasy event you know can never take place does not really matter. What matters is that the only real thing is this moment. Don’t waste your time with figments of your imagination when you could be alive now.
- YouTube — One two-minute clip leads you to the next 3-minute clip which leads you to the next 5-minute clip and suddenly you are realizing you are watching a Documentary on the History of Air Guitars when you started with a cat video.
- Sports — Going to the gym is totally fine or visiting your sports club, but when you hit…
