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I suffer from feeling like I should finish watching things I started even after realizing I don’t like it. I’ve also come to the realization that it is freeing
by dahart 5y ago
I suffer from feeling like I should finish watching things I started even after realizing I don’t like it. I’ve also come to the realization that it is freeing and making progress and good use of my time to force myself to decide to stop watching the show. It might be a kind of sunk cost fallacy that I’m fighting, feeling the need to check if there’s a surprise or if the ending gets better, feeling like I have to make sure I didn’t miss out on something good after all. Never tried speed-ending a video on Netflix, but I have on YouTube. But thinking about it now, I’m going to try harder to double down on consciously turning something off instead of wasting my time more quickly.
- waterhouse 5y agoA thing I've done a few times with TV shows is go read the Wikipedia summaries of the remaining episodes. Much faster than watching them. (In one case I then decided the rest was worth watching; in several others, I didn't.)