How do I watch YouTube in moderation?

[Devin]

1 hour ago, Vision said:

This might work for some people but I wouldn’t recommend this.

You’ll probably just end up getting more hooked since your brain adapts to the amount of exertion needed to do the activity.

Idly watching YouTube doesn’t require much exertion, so to preserve energy and resources your brain and body will weaken since it doesn’t have a need to be strong

Much like how when you stop working out at the gym, your strength weakens because your body doesn’t have any need to preserve that strength, whereas when you are pushing your muscles at the gym on a consistent basis, your body sees the need to adapt and grow itself, which it does. 

I've found people that distract themselves from some undesirable tendency they have either get back into it or substitute it.

 

I think your theory is similar to the common method to deal with depression, which I think is counter productive.

 

what I'm proposing won't work for substance abuse because it will kill you, you have to find the parallel problem with those situations and do this with that. But running away from or trying to escape depression seems counter productive, depression and this sort of addiction seem to be a tool, they'll take you deeper to where you need to go, rock bottom.

 

Rock bottom is where you can let everything go at no perceived cost, so the YouTuber can let go of whatever ignorance they're holding onto which is scaring them into using youtube as a distraction. 

You have to really lean into it though, not just continue dabbling in it.

 

He says he watches to learn, there comes a point you figure out you're better off no longer learning from others in that way for the types of things he is studying. Sounds to me his intuition is leading him to wisdom, I'd follow it, even though the method will make him temporarily live a way that is considered undesirable.

Edited July 1, 2022 by Devin