Constant scrolling social media on your phone gifting you with small doses of dopamine causes this. I used to read a book every two weeks few years ago and I have reached a point recently where books were boring, movies were too long so I watched series only. Realization is the first step. Now you have to make steps to change this. I have swapped bedtime phone scrollig to reading and books again and lowered my daytime phone usage. I have also watch some educational youtibe videos instead of scrolling some social media. It has helped a lot and now I’m back into reading and much more patient.

Watch? We watch movies now?

Start movie. Title sequence rolls, immediately tab out because loading screen. Fine, stuff is happening. Ugh, setup/framing scenes. Need coffee. Pause. Kettle on. May as well wait until I’ve made the coffee so I don’t have to break the flow again. I’ll just quickly mine some dopamine on the net while i’m waiting. Oh fuck the kettle’s boiling. Oh fuck? Oh, right. Procrastinating a thing makes it stressful, it’s turned into an obligation and therefore a threat. Okay, fine, I’ll get to it, I’ll just oh it’s 2am.

Yea I love movies but yea sometimes it can be tough.

Tbh getting high helps lol

I’m the only one in my family who can actually do that.

Everyone else keeps checking their phone, talking over each other, getting up every ten minutes to do something, which makes watching a movie with my family the most frustrating thing on earth.

It’s the one thing I can focus on, and they make it unnecessarily hard for me.

Damn, I’m the same way but that movie kept me engaged the whole time. the blends of animation style was mesmorizing.