1156 | Cal Newport: “Quit Social Media.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Cal Newport provides us with a distinct perspective about the role of social media in the competitive market and further elaborates its actual cost and danger to the skills relevant to the 21st-century economy.
According to Cal Newport, the market values the ability to produce things that are rare, relevant, and valuable. However, the use of social media proves to have an adverse effect on your abilities in the long run. He explains that social media fragments your attention, which has a detrimental effect on your concentration. And if you lose your ability to sustain concentration, then you lose the skills that the market actually values. For this reason, Cal reminds us to be wary of social media unless a positive and clear benefit is identified.
Finally, Cal gives us a glimpse of what life is like without social media—productive, peaceful, prosperous.
Source: Quit social media | Dr. Cal Newport | TEDxTysons
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, today's QLD is quit social media. Here we go |
| 0:30.0 | here. Welcome back to the quarter of the day show up your |
| 0:35.0 | hope shine cracks and the shine cracks and calm we got Cal, new |
| 0:39.0 | port, author of deep work on the show today and he's going to |
| 0:42.0 | encourage you to quit social media. Now I know quitting |
| 0:47.0 | social media is like it sounds so extreme. And if you don't |
| 0:51.0 | want to do it, that's all good. But what I'm going to encourage |
| 0:54.0 | you to do is to number one, consider your social media habits. |
| 0:59.0 | Just think about how much time do you spend every day on social |
| 1:04.0 | media? Number two, how does social media make you feel? The social |
| 1:09.0 | media make you feel happy. The number three, I want you to |
| 1:14.0 | consider taking a week off from social media. Maybe two weeks |
| 1:19.0 | off, maybe three weeks off. By the time you hear this, I will |
| 1:24.0 | have been off of Instagram for three weeks. So I have not |
| 1:29.0 | posted by the time you hear this for three weeks. I go in there |
| 1:32.0 | every couple of days to check my direct messages, but that's |
| 1:34.0 | it. And let me tell you, because I'm in the end of my second |
| 1:38.0 | week as of this recording, I feel so much better. I feel more |
| 1:44.0 | mentally healthy, which is interesting. And it's like hours |
| 1:51.0 | got added to the day. It's a trip. I'll be like, damn, it's |
| 1:56.0 | only like 11 a.m. Like what's going on? I got so much more |
| 2:00.0 | time to this day. It's really strange. And I want you to know |
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