> All these hours spent consuming forgettable garbage on Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, and in video games… these are hours not spent learning recipes, making music, writing programs, lifting weights, or practicing Spanish. If I could channel my energy towards these things, then the long-term payoff would be much more enriching. Not only that, but I’d probably be a happier person if I was disconnected from whatever daily drama social media wants me to care about.
I do all those things and I still waste a ton of time on Youtube.
And it's fine; your brain cannot dedicate all of its waking time to high-intensity intellectual endavours, you just end up burning out.
I worked full-time and studied for a few years. Remarkably, I still had a share of free time, but I couldn't do anything "productive" with it as I had no mental energy to do perform these tasks. You _have_ to just hang out and do nothing.
The most productive people I know waste a ton of time outside of their chosen specialty, and it's not a coincidence.
I do all those things and I still waste a ton of time on Youtube.
And it's fine; your brain cannot dedicate all of its waking time to high-intensity intellectual endavours, you just end up burning out.
I worked full-time and studied for a few years. Remarkably, I still had a share of free time, but I couldn't do anything "productive" with it as I had no mental energy to do perform these tasks. You _have_ to just hang out and do nothing.
The most productive people I know waste a ton of time outside of their chosen specialty, and it's not a coincidence.