There was an article a while back about a study someone did around willpower and self control. If I recall, their finding was not that the people who are better at delaying their gratification just have iron willpower and grind it out. Instead, they are smart enough to do things like remove themselves from temptation in order to make it take less willpower to accomplish their goals.

If the author if this article felt getting rid of their TV made it easier for them to live the life they want to live, I don't understand at all why so many people in this thread feel the need to criticize that.

Imagine an obese people wrote some blog post about throwing out all the cookies in their cabinet so they wouldn't be as tempted to eat them. We'd applaud that. Likewise, an alcoholic quitting their job bartending to get to a better environment.

But when it comes to media addiction, well... maybe it hits a little too close to home for many of us? Easier to criticize someone who tries to do better than to take an uncomfortable look in the mirror.