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Advice From Someone Who’s Never Had Social Media
Could this be the way to bring more meaning into your life?
Everyone’s online these days.
Even the most personal moments are captured, edited, and posted for the world to see.
Have you heard about this new TikTok ‘birthing makeup” trend, for example?
Not just that, social media is highly addictive. Most people find themselves hooked — scrolling through newsfeeds multiple times a day.
So what can we do about it?
Enter Cal Newport
Cal is a computer science professor who’s never had a social media account. And by all appearances, he never will.
What did this guy know that we didn’t?
Cal, like me, was an undergraduate when he first heard about Facebook. While his classmates quickly joined, he decided not to.
His question was this:
“What problem do I have that this solves?”
It seemed no one had an answer.
Now, many years later, Cal appears to have an ability that many of us don’t: the ability to deeply focus.
He even wrote a book on the topic of deep work.
