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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
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Cal Newport
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for the first time in human history solitude is starting to fade away altogether.
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three crucial benefits provided by solitude: "new ideas; an understanding of the self; and closeness to others.
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All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal famously wrote in the late seventeenth century."
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Kethledge, it turned out, relies on long periods alone with his thoughts to write his famously sharp legal opinions, often working at a simple pine desk in a barely renovated barn with no internet connection.
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The constant exposure to their friends' carefully curated portrayals of their lives generates feelings of inadequacy-especially during periods when they're already feeling low-and for teenagers, it provides a cruelly effective way to be publicly excluded.
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a
The average Facebook user, by contrast, spends around 350 minutes per week on this company's services
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
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Solitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiences-wherever you happen to be.
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running is cheaper than therapy.
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I get an extra 20 IQ points from being in that office,
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a
what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else.
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All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal
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