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What media sources have you outgrown, when, and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do you feel you have outgrown media sources or discontinued them for other reasons?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

More and more I’ve been listening to podcasts or treating Youtube videos like podcasts. It lets me multitask in a way that sitting down and trying to watch something just doesn’t.

How much of them do you catch as you're multitasking? Any time I try this I'm astounded at my unwitting ability to almost entirely tune out whatever they're talking about, defeating any point to playing the podcast outside of giving myself some background noise.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It miiiiight be an ADHD thing as the only people I've been known to actually retain info while doing this are all diagnosed, including me

Or at least more commonly possible in ND brains like that

I personally only find myself rewinding my audiobooks when either:

Something weirdly worded or confusing happens. Going through discworld right now and I had to repeat a lot of Pratchetts descriptions of people, for example
I need to read something in the language the book is in. IE, english Text that's actual words that have meaning, but not numbers or acronyms or other non-sentence English, if that makes sense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Its a trainable skill. Ive got it to the point where my boss doesnt give me shit about listening to audiobooks while I work because I'm faster when I do.