How To Stop Watching TV OR… At Least Not As Much

Today, we’ll focus on one of the biggest obstacles standing in your way towards academic success. There are indeed a lot of different distractions out there today but none is as elusive, innocent looking yet devilishly perjured as television.

Changing Habits is Difficult

First thing you’ll need to know is that changing a habit is almost always difficult. If you spend too many hours in front of the TV set, changing that behavior won’t be easy and it will demand a lot of patience and perseverance from your part. It is often said that the first step towards a remedy is recognizing the problem and this hold true here as well. If you are addicted to watching TV, day in and day out you’ll need to recognize this before you can start to take the necessary steps to watch less TV.

In doing so there are obviously two different roads towards this phenomenon, the first one being watching less TV and the second one stop watching TV all together. It may seem that the second option is more difficult in nature but this doesn’t necessarily hold true. It is sometimes said that complete abstention from something is easier than perfect moderation. This holds true for somethings of which TV maybe included, however this varies from person to person. Since there are two approaches towards treating this disease; I’ll try to discuss them both in detail.

Watching Less TV

Start out by asking yourself how much you watch every day. If you watch 5 hours of TV a day that equals 35 hours per week. In a span of 60 years that equals 12 years and 6 months! Talk about wasting your life! Begin by calculating how much TV you watch per day and then put up a goal of how much you wish to reduce this number.

The second thing that needs to be moderated is obviously the content of what you watch. The more educational content, whether they be (for instance) documentaries or debates

Stopping All Together

This isn’t as crazy as it may seem. Most if not all of the TV functions is replicated by the PC which in fact makes it expendable. If you wish to stop watching TV all together and rid yourself of the monster entirely I recommend you to read the following poem by Road Dahl, a famous English writer with roots in Norway.

He once wrote,

“The most important thing we’ve learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set –