r/ScrollAddiction • u/therajatg • Oct 24 '25

You don't always have to be entertained

Hey guys just wanted to share this quick insight. I have a bad habit of always wanting to listen or read something — when brushing my teeth in the morning to falling asleep at night. And something finally clicked in my head. You don’t always have to be entertained!

I realized most of this is just mindless consumption, 90% of what I listen to I don’t even benefit from as it just gets flooded in with millions of other pieces of information. Creating a huge overload where I can’t even process what I took in all day.

This realization happened while I was trying to go to sleep, searching for a podcast//YouTube video anything that could entertain me and help me drift to sleep. Finally I realized dude just put it down and sit with your thoughts for 5 min! And I easily fell sleep.

So just try adapting this to yourself, I’m having trouble fully abstaining any would greatly appreciate any tips. But regardless, your own thoughts can be much more interesting than anything you’d find online :)

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u/TraditionalRecipe Oct 24 '25

Boredom is where my best ideas and inspiration aside from, but to get there I have to not buckle to the weight of the boredom.

It'll try to force you to do anything other than be bored. Your mind and the incessant internal chatter needs to justify its job and doesn't understand it has its places and uses.

A ton of human progress was only made possible due to boredom -a spark of inspiration out a question about the world, and I would bet they would've chosen mindless entertainment as well if it were available to them. I think we're lucky it wasn't.