![]() ![]() Many of us fall victim to social media addiction but Newport doesn’t play the blame game, arguing that rather than lack of self-control, humans are ill-equipped to fight back: ![]() One of the most striking revelations from the first chapter of Newport’s book is the irony that technologies were initially added to the periphery of our existence for minor reasons however we woke one morning to discover that they had colonized the core of our daily lives. If you are interested in reducing your reliance on digital devices and lessen social media consumption, keep reading! This book is highly readable and deeply provocative for anyone who wishes to achieve balance in their social media use and break their enslavement to the social-validation feedback loop. Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World offers a refreshing and unapologetically practical method to initiate our digital detox in order to rediscover what really matters (hint: it’s not the number of Instagram followers you have). It’s 2020 and we live a modern hyper-connected existence, most of us floundering in a digitally saturated post-modern predicament, one of our own creation. ![]()
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