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Digital Minimalism

Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

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Digital Minimalism

By: Cal Newport
Narrated by: Will Damron
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Learn how to switch off and find calm - from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email

'Digital Minimalism is the Marie Kondo of technology' Evening Standard
'An eloquent, powerful and enjoyably practical guide to cutting back on screen time' The Times

'An urgent call to action for anyone serious about being in command of their own life' Ryan Holiday

'What a timely and useful book' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power


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 book, 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

A compelling case for cultivating intense focus, and offers immediately actionable steps for infusing more of it into our lives
A wonderfully entangled, intertwined, and erudite series of strategies, philosophies, disciplines, and techniques to sharpen your focus and dive deep into your work
As a presence on the page, Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors
Cal Newport speaks human truth to digital power. He calls out our enslavement to modern devices and calmly presents a better way to live and work (Julia Hobsbawm)
This book is an urgent call to action for anyone serious about being in command of their own life (Ryan Holiday)
Cal Newport has discovered a cure for the techno-exhaustion that plagues our always-on, digitally caffeinated culture (Joshua Fields Millburn)
Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism is the best book I've read in some time about our fraught relationship with technology. If you're looking for a blueprint to guide you as you liberate yourself from the shackles of email, social networks, smartphones, and screens, let this book be your guide (Adam Alter)
You're not the user, you're the product. Hang up, log off, and tune in to a different way to be in the world. Bravo, Cal, smart advice for good people (Seth Godin)
I hope that everyone who owns a mobile phone and has been wondering where their time goes gets a chance to absorb the ideas in this book. It's amazing how the same strategy can work for both financial success and mental well-being: Put more energy into what makes you happy, and ruthlessly strip away the things that don't (Pete Adeney)
I challenge you not to devour this wonderful book in one sitting. I certainly did and I started applying Cal's ideas to my own life immediately (Greg McKeown)
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I was always curious about this book. Initially, as a young millennial, I was skeptical. Now, a converted digital minimalist, I live under this learnings and constant evolution.

Changed my life!

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Book is good. You need to listen to it if you are phone addicted or use phone more than you should.

Good read

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Highly recommend this insightful and well written book that is full of thought provoking and life changing content. A must read for everyone in this digital age!!

excellent, life changing content

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Cal Newport writes an excellent treatise on Digital minimalism and living intentionally.

If you, like me, have struggled with maintaining a sensible level of digital application use, this will help you immensely.

Bravo.

life changing

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This is a fantastic book that shows us the dangers of social media and smartphone addiction and how it is robbing us of our most precious resource - our time and attention.
Cal Newport provides practical advice on how to take back control and benefit from new media technologies.

WARNING This book will change your relationship with your smartphone

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