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Cultivating a Deep Life

date Dec 17, 2022
authors Cal Newport
reading time 1 min
category blog

Handling Social media distractions

Take Instagram off of your phone; prune down accounts you follow to people you really care about or inspire you. Eliminate negative tweeting. Alcohol only on weekends.

Focus and avoid

focus with energetic intention on things that really matter, and avoid wasting too much attention on things that don’t.

No master plan, no dramatic moment

you should resist the urge to try to build a master plan that, once implemented, will transform everything for the better in one dramatic moment. This optimism is quixotic. It’s much more realistic to experiment with smaller shifts, one after another, to discover what sticks and what ends up superfluous.

Amplify and reduce habits

The details here matter less than the general strategy: month after month, relentlessly look to amplify habits that matter while reducing behaviors that don’t.