The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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I have given it some thought and keep returning to the same question - what exactly am I trying to solve for? What do I think I'm depriving myself of by playing XCOM2 while listening to a podcast instead of reading a book or sitting in quiet meditation? As near as I can tell, the main thing I'm missing out on with this choice is some aesthetic sensibility that reading the book is what a smart, educated, in-control person should do.
To each their own, but when I do my best to look at my life objectively, I just don't see anything important that I'm missing out on with entertainment choices. I'm fit, healthy, monetarily comfortable, have great friends, a loving wife, and a generally placid, upbeat demeanor that friends and colleagues tell me they appreciate. While I do have some sense of nostalgia for the days when I consumed books voraciously instead of occasionally picking one up that catches my eye, I'm hard-pressed to figure out what would be different if I read more and listened to podcasts less. I like podcasts! I still learn things! When they're interesting enough, I go dig into the relevant information.
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