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Before Breakfast

How not to become a couch potato

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A simple rule makes screen time more intentional

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0:00.0

Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1.

0:09.1

Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

0:13.7

I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.

0:18.5

At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.

0:21.2

Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley Season 2, starting April 9th on the IHeart Radio app,

0:26.6

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:33.3

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:38.9

Good morning. This is Laura.

0:42.7

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

0:46.2

Today's tip is that if you want to avoid mindless screen time,

0:51.4

make a rule for yourself that you don't turn on the TV unless there is a particular

0:56.6

show or movie that you plan to watch. Like another tip this week, today's tip comes from

1:04.2

Adam Grant, a professor at Penn's Wharton School. In an interview with former surgeon General

1:10.6

Vivek Murthy, Grant said he has a rule

1:13.3

for himself, that he doesn't turn on the TV unless he already knows what he wants to watch.

1:20.3

I like this rule for a few reasons. It has the obvious effect of reducing mindless TV consumption.

1:28.1

But a secondary plus is that it's not that hard to follow.

1:32.6

You don't have to exercise strict self-control by cutting TV from your life.

1:37.8

You don't have to pledge not to watch TV until you've done something else,

1:41.5

or observe particular screen time limits.

1:44.8

You are just deciding to watch something specific before you turn on the TV.

1:50.8

Practically speaking, this rule isn't all that limiting.

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