Positive Bingewatching
The term bingeing or binge-watching is always associated with a guilty pleasure or a mild sin way. It is not a positive thing to do. But sitting and reading a book at a stretch is considered an intellectual pursuit. If you think like a Gen-Z, reading a novel like Anna Karenina or Infinite Jest at a stretch for two to three hours, is actually binge-reading.
You are immersing in a world created by an artist or artists, which transforms a part of you. I will never be able to know what it ent a gay-couple adopts a Korea-based child in India or what goes into the mind of a billionaire like Bezos in hedge fund company.
In watching movies/TV shows, I try to follow a strategy that Tyler Cowen says in reading books: Be curious about a theme or a question and follow it. In his words:
Follow the questions, not the books per se. Don’t focus on which books to read, focus on which questions to ask. Then the books, and other sources, will follow almost automatically. Read in clusters! Don’t obsess over titles. Obsess over questions. That is how to learn best about many historical areas, especially when there is not a dominant book or two which beat out all the others.
(I want to go down the rabbit hole of how this strategy applies to movies and TV shows tomorrow.)