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Books, exercise, instruments, writing, drawing...

• randallsquared 10y ago
  Three of your five examples are screen-related, though?
  • chris_7 10y ago
    wat
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  • cr0sh 10y ago
    Which three? If they're the ones I think you mean - then you've forgotten about the old tech called "dead tree" and "graphite" (or whatever your preferred medium)...
    • randallsquared 10y ago
      It was a bit tongue in cheek, but it's not so much that I've forgotten about them, but that I think people giving this advice tend to forget that many folks just don't buy paper books, notepads to sketch or write on, pens and pencils, etc.
      • BeetleB 10y ago
        Yes, but those folks then can't complain about their sleep problems. Trust me: For a big chunk of the population (and not just "older" people), spending four hours a day without screen time is not something special. Insisting you need a screen for not just one, but multiple activities listed makes you an inflexible person. And that is the type of person many employers do not want to hire. For health reasons not related to sleep, I found I had to reduce my screen time. I'm the type of person who likes everything electronic. All my notes are in a text file, etc. But I did step back and looked at the bigger picture: The cost to my health was clear. The gains on insisting everything be electronic was much muddier. I was spending a lot of time on activities with a dubious ROI. Once you start getting older, the urgency with which you want to make your "free" time meaningful really kicks in. If I didn't change, I could easily see myself in my 50's still sticking to habits that do not benefit me too much.
    • ashark 10y ago
      To be fair, I also use screens for at least part of four of those things (not counting buying books on Amazon, then it'd be all 5) and plenty of people also use a screen for books (even if you don't count e-ink, which isn't light-emitting so probably shouldn't count as a screen in this context). You can do without them entirely all parts of those activities, obviously, but it's less convenient and/or more expensive, and depending on your goals or workflow may be entirely inappropriate (some drawing/art, for instance).
  • BeetleB 10y ago
    Not one of them has to be.