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Cut down on the biggest evil

Cut down on the biggest evil

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Cut down on the biggest evil

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- This next Happiness video is about the dreaded television. We all know it's bad. We mostly watch junk. We all probably know someone who doesn't have a TV and we think they're mad even though we sort of admire them too. And let's face it, giving up TV isn't really an option, is it? Well, I've noticed that when I'm on holiday, I don't really watch TV at all. If you go to Italy or Norway or Peru, the TV will probably be poor quality and also not in English so you have no option but to do something else. And suddenly you have loads of spare time. So when you're on holiday, what do you do instead? And the answer is you talk, you read, you play cards or board games, you go for walks, you get some exercise, and it's great. You might do something mindless like making a jigsaw puzzle, but doing that isn't a waste of time because you talk while you're doing it. All of the things I just mentioned are pull rather than push activities. You do them at the speed you want to go at. For example…

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