Second Cup: Watch TV wisely
Before Breakfast
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🗓️ 4 June 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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How to enjoy TV without it taking over your life.
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| 0:00.0 | the unimaginable. Season 2 of the Unimaginable hones in on individuals who have led unimaginable |
| 0:07.6 | lives by following their instinct from guests like TycoYTT. Stick to your vision of what you're |
| 0:14.6 | trying to do. It's just more pure. The failure is more pure and the success is more pure. |
| 0:18.7 | This season delivers behind-the-scenes conversations about the many roads to success. |
| 0:23.9 | Listen to the Unimaginable on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your |
| 0:29.0 | podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio. |
| 0:39.2 | Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is about how to |
| 0:46.0 | watch TV wisely. Even with the rise of the internet and social media, people still watch a lot of |
| 0:53.4 | TV. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Time Use Survey, the average American |
| 0:59.7 | logs 2.77 hours of TV per day as a primary activity. That's just under 20 hours a week, |
| 1:07.3 | or the equivalent of a part-time job. To be sure, this figure includes teenagers and retirees. |
| 1:14.2 | But even the people we might think of as busiest, people who have jobs and kids at home, |
| 1:19.7 | manage to average almost 2 hours per day. I always think of these numbers when I hear people talk |
| 1:25.8 | about the crazy busyness of modern society. It seems at least some of us have time to kick up our |
| 1:31.8 | feet. And honestly, that's fine. I am not going to start your morning with a lecture on the |
| 1:36.9 | evils of television, or Netflix, or any other such service. There are tons of amazing shows on |
| 1:42.6 | these days. I'm thrilled to see how many organizations are putting money into good writing and |
| 1:47.4 | great plots. Instead, I want to talk about how you, as a busy person, can incorporate TV wisely |
| 1:54.8 | into your life. I want to talk about how you can enjoy TV. It also has time for the other amazing |
| 2:00.8 | things you want to spend your time doing. The first step? Be choosy. The reason TV fills the bulk |
| 2:09.0 | of people's leisure time is that it's so easy. You don't need to dress up. You don't need to work |
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