Newport defines Digital Minimalism as, “A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.” Intermittent positive reinforcement and.Tech companies encourage behavioral addiction through: In many cases, these addictive properties of new technologies are carefully engineered design features.

Our new technologies are particularly well suited to foster behavioral addictions and.

It’s Newport’s contention that checking “likes” is the new smoking.Īddiction is defined as “a condition in which a person engages in the use of a substance or in a behavior for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeatedly pursue the behavior despite detrimental consequences.”Īfter reviewing the relevant psychology literature and interviewing relevant people in the technology world, author Adam Alter discovered that: “People don’t succumb to screens because they’re lazy, but instead because billions of dollars have been invested to make this outcome inevitable.” Newport is convinced that we need “a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else.” A Lopsided Arms Race

The Bennett Principle: A practice in which you prioritize demanding activity over passive consumption, use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world, and seek activities that require real-world, structured social interactions.

The Social Media Paradox: Social media makes you feel both connected and lonely, happy and sad.

Solitude Deprivation: A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds.

Digital Declutter: A practice in which you define your technology rules, take a thirty-day break, and reintroduce technology.

Digital Minimalism: “A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.”.

Digital Minimalism is a philosophy of technology in which you focus your online time on a few carefully selected activities that support the things you value.

Digital minimalism by cal newport