My book reading habit has definitely felt the benefits of this experiment :) I’m reading more books and am quite happy about that.
Writing summaries for YouTube videos helped me watch less videos in total, but also improved my filtering (intuitions or memory to help predict what videos are more or less worthwhile to watch) so I now watch less total videos of higher quality than I used to.
If you commit to writing summaries, let me know how that goes! I’m curious to see if the summary writing is as helpful for you as it has been for me (everyone’s different so seeing if that intervention works for > n = 1 would be nice).
I’ve done something similar to this
I found my overconsumption of reddit and YouTube distasteful as I was spending a majority of my day on these sites mindless scrolling or refreshing.
I ended up cutting them out entirely for about two weeks and felt much better, working through a backlog of books instead. but have since relapsed
I like the idea of writing summaries I think I will commit myself to that.
My book reading habit has definitely felt the benefits of this experiment :) I’m reading more books and am quite happy about that.
Writing summaries for YouTube videos helped me watch less videos in total, but also improved my filtering (intuitions or memory to help predict what videos are more or less worthwhile to watch) so I now watch less total videos of higher quality than I used to.
If you commit to writing summaries, let me know how that goes! I’m curious to see if the summary writing is as helpful for you as it has been for me (everyone’s different so seeing if that intervention works for > n = 1 would be nice).