Note: This is for Entertainment only. If it's related to education or work (I have very strict standards), those don't count. But I also don't abuse this system to consume anything.

• Introduction and why

  There was a time when the internet was in infancy and people loved the ability to share the world with someone from the other side of the planet. I remember playing Microsoft Reversi for the first time with a stranger as a kid and it blew my mind that I was playing it with a real person from some other country. And then we found Wikipedia and how useful it was in cross-checking a lot of stuff. Online gaming and so so so many things that were pretty cool for the first time.

  Then slowly something changed. Some companies realized that they can make money out of these online stuff and everything started to change from sharing thing for the heck of it to sharing stuff that makes money. And then, some evil people realized, let's hire bunch of scientists and psychologists and make these social apps as addictive as possible. So just simple willpower won't be enough. You can't just expect that you will start to change without deploying some crucial strategies.

  I wanted to share strategies that have helped me live a better digital life.

• Digital Health is about video/audio stuff only, not in general, be it study, entertainment, work or anything

  This should be quite clear but this will become relevant as we start to move from Digital to Physical Entertainment.
  Gaming now simply means video games but from where I come, physical real world gaming is where gaming is at, not the digital stuff.
  Similarly this will expand into other forms of entertainment soon and of course, not just entertainment also.

• I thought I had no imagination due to long video entertainment exposure

  I want to talk a bit about some of the experiences I had with fiction audiobooks. As I said earlier I thought I lacked imagination and if I didn't see a video of something I didn't fully grasp it.

  I used to watch movies before hand then read the books and watch the movies after listinge to the books so that I can assign each character thier own image becaue I thoought I can't imagine things in my head.

  Or so I thought.

  As it turns out I really can imaginge many many scenarios in my head. After listeing to many audio9books and actively not watching their related movies completely I have very strong memeories from the books I have listentn to. THe sceen in the second Reacher Novel about the reacher breaking free from his chains was just freaking aamzing and I can see it so clearly in my head. i listened to this section again and again. The whole next book, same thing. I can vividly see the forests whre the shootouts happened, how burns jeep was transported from chanook and more.

  And same for sherlcok holmes stories whose videos I didn't watch like the engineer's thumb or the german student case.

  I appreciate the video enternaiment. I really do. I loved the reacher TV show and that got me into th books in thef irst place and same with sherlcok. I loved the tv show and that's what got me into thebooks. I loved Jeremy Berett's acting especailly abouit when he let a man go in the blue carbuncle, it was different from the books but it was pretty amaziong.

  However, now I am breaking the pattern. I am purposely avoiding video enternatiment so that I can enjoy the books and their imaginatyions properly.

  Even narnia and the series of unfortunate events were so full of "color" that I can't ever think of ruining that wiht a movie.

  There are so many books pending like Piroirot and more which I have never and will never watch the tv/video/movies atll.

  Also, one last thing since I am linsteint to these books my hands are completely free which I am using to create many systems like myurhoosom, small DIY stuff or sometimes even rsearching laptops. With video enteritentin, incluign gaming, they all stopped.