There’s a ton of educational and entertaining content online you can stream which can take up quite of bit of your time depending on your interests. According to digitalmarketing.org the average American adult spends 24 minutes a day on YouTube, so besides just watching less videos or listening to fewer audio books, there is one thing you can do to decrease the amount of time you spend listening to a lecturer or staring at screen without watching or listening to less pre-recorded content in general, and that’s simply just playing back the video or audio at a faster speed.
You definitely may not be able to do this in every circumstance unless the application or website provides that feature, but YouTube is one content provider that does offer this option:
I find that increasing playback speed is extremely useful so long as you’re still able to clearly capture everything the speaker is saying and I probably do this most of the time for recorded class lectures, podcasts and YouTube videos now unless I want to more fully absorb certain points I’m hearing. It’s probably not everyone’s cup of tea but if you’re into that sort of thing I think this it’s a really great time saving technique that not too many people may be utilizing.
