Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World Audiobook (Free)
- Cal Newport, Will Damron
- Penguin Audio
- 2019-02-05
Summary:
A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Web publishers Regular, and USA Today bestseller
‘Newport is producing a bid to become the Marie Kondo of technology: somebody with a genuine plan for assisting you recognize the digital pursuits that perform, and don’t, bring value to your daily life.’–Ezra Klein, Vox
Minimalism may be the artwork of focusing on how much is just plenty of. Digital minimalism applies this idea to your personal technology. It is the important to living a focused life within an increasingly noisy globe.
With this timely about Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life inside a Noisy World and enlightening book, the bestselling writer of Deep Work introduces a viewpoint for technology use that has currently improved countless lives.
Digital minimalists are around us. They’re the relaxed, happy individuals who can hold lengthy discussions without furtive glances at their mobile phones. They can obtain lost in an excellent reserve, a woodworking task, or a leisurely morning hours run. They are able to have fun with friends and family with no obsessive urge to document the knowledge. They stay up to date about the news headlines of your day, but don’t feel overwhelmed by it. They don’t experience ‘fear of lacking out’ because they know which activities offer them indicating and satisfaction.
Now, Newport gives us a name because of this quiet movement, and makes a persuasive case for its urgency inside our tech-saturated world. Common sense ideas, like turning off notifications, or occasional rituals like watching a digital sabbath, don’t go far enough in helping us take back control of our technological lives, and tries to unplug completely are complicated from the demands of family, close friends and function. What we need instead can be a thoughtful method to decide what equipment to make use of, for what purposes, and under what circumstances.
Sketching on a diverse array of real-life examples, from Amish farmers to harried parents to Silicon Valley programmers, Newport identifies the normal practices of digital minimalists and the concepts that underpin them. He displays how digital minimalists are rethinking their romantic relationship to social media, rediscovering the pleasures of the offline globe, and reconnecting using their inner selves through regular periods of solitude. He then shares approaches for integrating these procedures into your daily life, you start with a thirty-day ‘digital declutter’ procedure that has currently helped thousands feel less overwhelmed and even more in control.
Technology is intrinsically neither good nor bad. The main element is using it to support your goals and values, instead of letting it use you. This reserve shows the way.
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