Cal Newport
speaker
23,606 appearances
41 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Sep
Cal Newport’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 41 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 9.
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Oh yeah.
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Of course you should just like use your phones less, right?
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He i this was a a battle.
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They personified it as him in a battle against forces beyond his control.
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He was battered.
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He was tested.
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At the very end, there's a voice in his head saying, No, but but but but we this is where you're happy.
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This is where you're safe.
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That personifies the psychological experience of
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trying to leave the f digital artificiality in which so much of us live.
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The Truman show captured that, that it's not a simple decision, it's an act of
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Heroism.
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That's what they are capturing.
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And I think that's really important that we reconceive what it means to escape the digital.
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We we we conceive it not as hey, you should stop smoking as bad for you.
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And instead we we accept and we amplify.
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And embrace and acknowledge the heroic difficulty of doing it and then say it's worth it anyways.
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Heart is good.
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The most meaningful things are hard.
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Put down the brain rot.
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