[aspirant]

Right, because ending up a great musician instead of a great watcher of television would have been awful.

[dpcan]

You are missing his point.

He could have replaced guitar with model airplane building, riding bikes, making friendship bracelets, or training a giraffe.

The point is, good time management makes time for the things you need to make time for - and in this person's case, TV happened to be his vice.

[edanm]

Does everyone who practices guitar ends up a great musician? And if they don't, but only practice guitar to relax, would you consider the time "wasted"?

[stoney]

I guess you could approach this kind of question from a risk/probability point of view. Not everyone who practices guitar becomes great at it, but some do, so if you practice guitar you expose yourself to a potentially big upside (assuming you actually want to be a great guitar player).

I can't think of a potential upside that you expose yourself to by watching TV (other than the immediate gratification), but maybe there is something.

[latch]

You sir, have been upvoted.

I hate the "agree" posts, but since no one else can see how upvoted I can only dream you've been, I decided this comment was worth the -4.