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# Overheard : On cutting down “stuff”
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/overhear-on-cutting-down-stuff/
- Published: 2022-02-28T03:05:44.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-28T03:05:51.000Z
- Description: We’re good as humans to committing to things that are positive. That’s very motivating for us. We’re bad at trying to avoid things that are negative...
- Author: admin
- Tags: OverHeard, life, philosophy, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

> We’re good as humans to committing to things that are positive. That’s very motivating for us. We’re bad at trying to avoid things that are negative  
>  
> – [Cal Newport](https://www.calnewport.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org) in [conversation](https://tim.blog/2022/02/04/cal-newport-transcript/?ref=kudithipudi.org) with [Tim Ferriss](https://tim.blog/?ref=kudithipudi.org)

Cal was speaking about how we are good at adding things that seem good to to us (facebook is good because we can communicate on the fly), but bad at avoiding negative things (being on facebook and doom scrolling is a bad thing). He instead suggests, just using technology for things you like (I will have facebook, but only follow and read messages from folks I want to).