Art by J. L. Westover
I was listening to a self help book about bad habits and it keeps going on about video games=time waste, don’t do it. Honestly that’s bullshit and I’m sick of that viewpoint. What if that’s what I like to do in my down time to relax? Why is playing video games a bad habit but watching a movie isn’t?
Well, the author probably grew up and was socialized in a world that had books/movies, but not video games, so…
What downtime things did it say aren’t a time waste?
Because once you play enough video games, you will develop the urge to commit a shooting /s
Their point might have been to do something constructive. To get a skill out of it you can use to provide for yourself if need be. So they’re probably thinking of carpentry, pottery, gardening or other vocational hobbies…
Balance. It’s perfectly fine to realize when you’re too far in either direction.
Exactly, just got to find that balance. Like slacking off and playing games at work.
Or my fav: playing complex games that are basically a second job!
For you to not live in a world where you’re being inundated by all of the collective human stressors every day?
My experience with stressors is that they are relative, and they scale to fit the available worry. I’m stressed about work, but from personal experience I have been just as stressed about being unemployed or about school. Therefore the stress is the common thing - if it is common then adjusting to the stress is more productive than avoiding the stresses.
Hence meditation, exercise, meaningful relationships, etc.
It wants to stop staring at a screen all day and go outside.
What hustle culture does to your mind
After they’ve taken care of shelter and clothing people tend to work until they can feed themselves and then stop working for a while
