Entertainment is Overrated
You don’t need to be amused to be happy
You love watching Netflix, engaging in digital media, following sports, and all that. I get it, it’s nice to sit on the sofa, grab a beer with some nachos and relax.
Except, you paying a steep price for that.
Entertainment is a passive activity that makes you lazy, unmotivated and dumb.
Several studies in psychology show how cognitive decline accelerates when binge-watching TV. The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.
What is entertainment?
Let’s define it as non-productive activities that we engage in, mostly in digital format — Netflix, TV, social media, games, news, online groups, and the like.
Reasons why entertainment in bad for you
Time
It’s a huge waste of time. The average person spends 6 hours a day stuck to a screen — phone, tablet, TV, PC — just for pleasure. That is 2400 hours a year of wasted time.
Just imagine, what you could achieve with all that time if it was put to good use.
You could start a side business, read lots of books, learn any skill, get fit, etc. Time is literally all you’ve got and you are wasting it away with low-value activities.
