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Escaping Your Screen: How to Reclaim Your Focus with Professor Cal Newport

Escaping Your Screen: How to Reclaim Your Focus with Professor Cal Newport

Update: 2024-10-11
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Find out why it’s the time spent on screens, not just the content, that’s affecting your well-being – and how you can start reclaiming your focus with Professor Cal Newport

In this bitesize episode, I sit down with Cal Newport to chat about how smartphones and social media are messing with our well-being. Rather than focusing on what sort of content we’re consuming, the bigger issue is the sheer amount of time we spend glued to our screens. Cal explains that what really makes us unhappy is all the missed opportunities – the high value things we could be doing instead.

He shares some great tips on how to reclaim our time and focus on what truly matters, like spending time on high-quality activities, having real conversations, being present, and finding moments of awe and gratitude. Cal also dives into some strategies to sharpen our focus - including what he calls 'focus interval training' – to help us get better at doing deep, meaningful work and regain our ability to find flow.

Full Professor Cal Newport episode - on Distraction, Anxiety and Deep Work: https://pod.fo/e/16fa26

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Escaping Your Screen: How to Reclaim Your Focus with Professor Cal Newport

Escaping Your Screen: How to Reclaim Your Focus with Professor Cal Newport

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