Podcasts
You May Be Wasting Your Life by Listening to Podcasts
Why it may not be productive or fulfilling to go on the audio binge.
Many of us grew up being told to “go outside and play” instead of spending all our time watching television, while the youngest among us might have been more apt to use computers or play video games.
For generations, we’ve all been stuck in front of a screen, watching a virtual world instead of living in our own — from birth until death.
Then came podcasts.
It seemed like the perfect solution for the unproductive masses: when you’re commuting, turn on a podcast so you can be informed about a topic. Or instead of watching a movie or browsing the internet, you can listen to a podcast and learn about something useful.
Podcasts are an onslaught of words, which is just like reading, right?
We saw it as the perfect solution to avoid being an uncultured couch potato.
However, the statistics behind who listens to podcasts reveals an unsettling truth: we listen to podcasts as passive, pop culture entertainment — and that hits our wallet and hurts our brain.
