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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1156 | Cal Newport: “Quit Social Media.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Cal Newport highlights a distinct perspective about the role of social media in the competitive market and reveals its actual cost and danger to the skills relevant to the 21st-century economy.

Transcript

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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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