Digital Minimalism Part Two

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Self-improvement, Business, Investing, Education

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🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

If there’s ever a time to disconnect and take a breath, this is it. With all the non-stop zoom videos and conference calls, it’s very easy to feel overwhelmed and worn out. Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can get lost in a good book, a woodworking project, or a leisurely morning run. They don't experience "fear of missing out" because they already know which activities provide them meaning and satisfaction. Man oh man, that is music to my ears! That’s why I’m so excited to re-run our interview with Cal Newport who was in-studio a while back to talk about his latest book, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Have a money question? Email me here. Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. It's Sunday, September 13th, and we are presenting the
0:09.8	second part of our interview with Cal Newport. He is an academic. He is an
0:14.8	author. Two books that I really loved of his. One is called Deep Work and the
0:20.3	other is called Digital Minimalism. And that is the other is called Digital Minimalism.
0:23.1	And that is the book that he came to talk to us about
0:26.2	when he was in the studios about a year and a half ago.
0:29.3	One of the things that Cal emphasized way back when was that when we look at our digital diet it's important to include both
0:37.4	streaming and video games. Here's the second half of our interview with Cal
0:42.1	Newport.
0:43.0	So now I want to talk about the principles of digital minimalism,
0:46.4	starting with one of my favorite things, which is you quantify it and you say clutter is costly.
0:50.6	Yeah.
0:51.0	And explain that.
0:52.3	Right. Well, I mean, if we take a step back, what is minimalism asking you to do?
0:56.0	What it's asking you to do essentially is wipe the slate clean of all of this haphazard junk that you've added into your personal digital life for arbitrary reasons
1:04.8	Wipe it clean get rid of it all and they carefully rebuild it from scratch
1:08.8	Except for when you rebuild it from scratch you just put in the big ROI, the big ROI options right?
1:14.6	Right. selective intentional use of technology that now you're choosing very
1:18.6	specifically this is going to help something I really value. This is going to
1:21.9	help something I really value. This doesn't, so I'm going to ignore it. That's
1:25.4	classic minimalism. Now the question is why does that work? Because it does mean
1:29.2	that you have to miss out on things that could bring you some small value or convenience.
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