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Strongly disagree. Watching TV is easy and numbing - before you know you’ll have a habit. Habits are hard to break. I think OP would far better advised spendin

Strongly disagree. Watching TV is easy and numbing - before you know you’ll have a habit. Habits are hard to break. I think OP would far better advised spending 15 minutes a day on any of the hobbies he listed. If he doesn’t feel like doing it, do it anyways. Eventually he’ll have a positive habit. Some people are going to make the argument that you work hard enough, don’t “work” outside your job. Doing anything new is inherently hard though - you need to get past the initial “suck”. After some time you’ll be far better equipped to figure out if this something you actually want in your life. Don’t feel like starting something? Do it anyways. Take tomorrow off, but not today.

ac29 6y ago
It seems like OP has piled intellectually intense hobbies (learning a foreign language, reading "complex" books) on top of a intellectually challenging career. Thats not going to work for most people, just like most people cant spend 12 hours a day on their career. So while maybe watching TV is a little too passive, there are lots of in between activities that might be useful: cooking, gardening, meditating, things that are reasonably mindful, but work different mental muscles than thinking about algorithms or data structures.