My strategy is different on 2nd Step

I am using method of the ancients of watching stuff weekly as they come out. Watching 1 episode a day has really elevated my enjoyment of the shows as my dopamine receptors are not oversaturated.

Books and Manga on the other hand serve a different purpose so I binge them indiscriminately.

Switch to gaming?

Sometimes it’s time to solve your problems. No I am kidding let’s watch another episode

All of my interests are niche, so this SHOULD happen to me all the time. The thing is, I have about 40,000,000 of them, so I usually get inspired to work on something else when I get bored

If you keep running out, you’re probably consuming too much. You need more past time where you have fun another way. Walk around town and superglue rocks to walls or whatever floats your boat. You really have to enjoy it, and not try to force yourself. Disconnect.

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That’s usually time to do something else.

I made a my own tv schedule! I watch only one episode from each show once a week on its assigned day. Not only was the process of filing it out fun but I’m constantly excited to watch things that I wouldn’t have chosen before (for whatever reason).I was bored before watching the same stuff and people say after day. This has been a huge step for me in solving the problem you described

I don’t really follow content creators. YouTube ads are more annoying than tv and half the content feels like an ad.

I’m more into prestige tv shows. I just look at critics top lists for different years. Whatever looks interesting goes on jellyfin. Generally HBO is good or at least was.

It means you aren’t waiting for shows to get renewed or see if they iron out the kinks. I don’t bother with anything that hasn’t been renewed unless it’s getting ratings over 7.5 or critical acclaim, preferably both.

If I run out of new content, I go to old reliable a, like the west wing or ab fab or six feet under. I’m not a big fan of reality tv but the traitors, especially the UK one without celebrities scratched an itchy and I’ve binged them all. I think it will drop off in quality as people learn how the game is played successfully. Too quiet or too loud and you’re out.

There’s just so much content available these days I don’t know how you can get stuck on step four. Like people are saying, maybe you need to look at doing other things.

I don’t. I don’t find video media very engaging, and typically avoid it. If there’s nothing interesting to watch, I do something else.

When if find miself in the situation when i’m out of that entertaining shit I was doing, I see it as a chance to switch my attention to work/study/something useful.

And about step 4. I usually don’t stop after finding something. I continue to download diverce things until I sick of the seeking. So I always have a few games/shows waiting until I have free time and mood to get to them.

You have to be more open-minded on #4, and not be so dismissive. If a lot of people are talking about something, there’s probably something to it. You’re rejecting it, when the real point is that while it seems like something throwaway, there’s actually something about it that contradicts that first notion, and THAT’S what makes it interesting.

Give it 3 or 4 episodes, and if it hasnt grabbed you, then move on.

Another suggestion is to switch streaming services. You havent really run out of content, you’ve just run out of content on those platforms. Find new platforms and destroy them, and move on. In a year or two, come back to your original streamers, and watch the latest seasons of the things you enjoyed last year.

Watch Mr. Robot.

I usually rewatch old stuff, and one of the YouTube channels I follow generates so much different content that I can’t keep up.

Also my schedule sadly doesn’t allow for step 2 and 3.