Digital Minimalism
Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
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Cal Newport
About this listen
Learn how to switch off and find calm - from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email
Do you find yourself endlessly scrolling through social media or the news while your anxiety rises? Are you feeling frazzled after a long day of endless video calls?
In this timely audiobook, professor Cal Newport shows us how to pair back digital distractions and live a more meaningful life with less technology.
By following a 'digital declutter' process, you'll learn to:
- Rethink your relationship with social media
- Prioritize 'high bandwidth' conversations over low quality text chains
- Rediscover the pleasures of the offline world
Take back control from your devices and find calm amongst the chaos with Digital Minimalism.
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Critic reviews
"An urgent call to action for anyone serious about being in command of their own life." (Ryan Holiday)
"Cal's call for meaningful and engaged interactions is just what the world needs right now." (Daniel Levitin, author of The Organised Mind)
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- Mayur
- 09-26-19
Don't lose tech... Use tech in a better way !
Book tells us that "Technology is an incredible innovation that enabled us to live best life than any other human lived in the history.
But we shouldn't get in trap of attention economy to waste our precious time. Instead we should use it to experience things that we deeply value.
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- Chamal Perera
- 01-14-20
Practical Advices to be a digital make minimalist
This book is definitely an eye opener to think about our digital activities. Cal provided practical advices on how to embrace the digital minimalism.
This book asked me the question of the real use of social media.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-13-19
exactly what I needed, when I needed it!
As good and helpful as Deep Work. Especially helpful and enlightening for people like me since I work online and have to be connected more than I like.
Easier said than done, yes, but Cal outlines practical steps that we all can follow to take back control over our lives.
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- Harry B.
- 11-11-19
Some valuable strategies drags on.
This book began well by really breaking down the problem and giving useful strategies for overcoming it, however began to drag on and ironically lost focus in the second half, blaming tech for things such as the rise of teen anxiety with little to no evidence. Ultimately, while I think there is a lot of wisdom in this book, it's quite possibility an overcorrection that blames tech for too much. I personally think technology is revealing humanities shortcomings rather than creating them.
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- Herman Freysen
- 05-20-19
Import message in these times
Do not trust that social media is there to serve you and improve your happiness.
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- Nadhrah Athirah
- 10-10-19
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Love it. I've been trying to cut down my social media use, especially. I've been trying to practice some of it, i hope it works well (it is for at least one week while listening to this audiobook). Very inspiring. Thank you! Also this is my first audiobook ever, and so far i've been looking forward for more.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-17-20
THANK YOU CAL!
Every book you write is progressively better and more informative than the last. I will be re-listening to this more often. Thank you so much!
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- Kiyaga Raymond
- 06-17-19
Quite enlightening
Carl’s new book highlights the dangers of modern tools that affect our instincts to socialise. He highlights ways in which one can battle them and shows you how to be vigilant.
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- Ori
- 01-10-20
Reaffirmed decisions and feelings I had already
I always had a feeling that social media platforms are wasting my time, and even sometimes asked myself, after scrolling a lot "what am I doing?". The book breaks down in great detail how the attention economy we grew to know, skyrocketed with social media platforms to the point that our time and attention is literally being robbed by mindless scrolling and empty, emotional shock value videos or posts. Great read, taught me how to use social media with intent to empower the things that important to me. Reminds me of the book easy way to quit smoking by allen carr, as it points out all the behaviors, rationalization and excusing we put out, to keep using, instead of regaining control and realizing the truth.
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- Steve
- 04-16-24
A must listen "off your smart phone"
I love this book. It helps make me more intentional about the technology I use rather than letting the technology use me it allowed me to take a look at my parents text and realize that most of the time I just need to remove the app from my phone not necessarily from every device I do think I need to focus though on having multiple tabs open, as this is the same concept where there's too many items or jumping between projects or items at any given time
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