[ad404b8a372f2b9]

You're already positioning yourself in a very specific value framework when you put productivity and self-improvement at the forefront. There are many other frameworks in which finding pleasure in the present has value.

I've known people who chased the future so hard they never took the time to live.

[markdestouches]

I believe I've addressed that saying that some would consciously pick a cigarette. I think it is reasonable to say that such people are a minority.

[dools]

So if they had watched more TV would that have constituted “taking the time to live”?

[ad404b8a372f2b9]

If watching TV had brought them pleasure in the present, yes that would fit the definition I was using.