How to Be Productive While Watching TV
Four useful things you can do while sitting on the sofa
A few years ago, I genuinely believed that sitting on the sofa for several hours each day meant I was lazy.
I thought I needed to work at my desk for eight hours per day in order to achieve a meaningful level of productivity. After all, that’s what a lot of productivity gurus say on the internet. But I’ve since learned that I was totally wrong.
You don’t need to spend every second of the day typing, sending emails, or doing something that might typically be considered productive. The reason? You can get a lot of useful things done while watching TV on the sofa.
Here are four examples:
1) Spend Time With Loved Ones
It’s important to remember that productivity is about making the most of the available time you have. So if you want to spend time with the people you care about, that’s an extremely productive thing to do. Quoting an article published by The New York Times:
“Far-Flung lovers once took solace in sharing the same big sky. Now they take it in sharing the little screen. They count down — 3, 2, 1 — to begin “Breaking Bad” at the same second. While Facebook-messaging about it on another slice of the laptop…
