I love that phrase "productive leisure." I've noticed that I always feel satisfied with my downtime when I've used it to read a book, but not so when I've meandered around YouTube watching various unrelated videos.
Mar 15, 2023·edited Mar 17, 2023Liked by Family Scripts
GREAT recap of the book and very important points to think about. I have tried the idea of a “drop your phone 📱 off spot” in a designated area for family functions. The problem is we all use them for a camera 📸 too. It has worked at dinner time only. I am dealing with adult children & adults.
Thank you for this post! I think Cal Newport has helped a lot of people with his work and I really like the direction his writing has been moving in the last few years. To answer a couple of your questions, after doing the recommended 30-day break, I decided that Instagram and Facebook are useful technologies for me, for two reasons: 1) IG keeps me connected to internet friends whom I have never met in real life but with whom I correspond, and share in the ups and downs of life and 2) FB is a place where I get and share genuinely useful information in a neighbourhood parenting group and in my kids' school group for parents. BIG CAVEAT: I use a software called Freedom to limit my use to 15 minutes per day. It locks me out afterward. This is the mechanism I need in place in order to not endlessly scroll! Other things like never bringing my phone into the bedroom have now become default behaviours for me.
I love that phrase "productive leisure." I've noticed that I always feel satisfied with my downtime when I've used it to read a book, but not so when I've meandered around YouTube watching various unrelated videos.
GREAT recap of the book and very important points to think about. I have tried the idea of a “drop your phone 📱 off spot” in a designated area for family functions. The problem is we all use them for a camera 📸 too. It has worked at dinner time only. I am dealing with adult children & adults.
Thank you for this post! I think Cal Newport has helped a lot of people with his work and I really like the direction his writing has been moving in the last few years. To answer a couple of your questions, after doing the recommended 30-day break, I decided that Instagram and Facebook are useful technologies for me, for two reasons: 1) IG keeps me connected to internet friends whom I have never met in real life but with whom I correspond, and share in the ups and downs of life and 2) FB is a place where I get and share genuinely useful information in a neighbourhood parenting group and in my kids' school group for parents. BIG CAVEAT: I use a software called Freedom to limit my use to 15 minutes per day. It locks me out afterward. This is the mechanism I need in place in order to not endlessly scroll! Other things like never bringing my phone into the bedroom have now become default behaviours for me.