Ep. 373: The Internet’s Best Advice for Reinventing Your Life

A few years ago, I published a podcast episode with a simple idea. The right time to make major changes in your life is not the new year, but instead the fall. This is when your energy is returning after the summer slowdown and when you're really ready to lock in. on bigger goals. That episode became really popular, and in the years since then, this fall reset concept has caught on within the internet community.

Some of the biggest names in podcasting and YouTube have since put out their own reset videos, which I think is great for two reasons. One, as an empathetic human, I like the idea in general to see people improving their lives, but two, as someone who writes and talks specifically about technology and how it impacts us and how we should respond to it, I've come to believe that taking control of your life is a critical first step before you can take control of your devices. The more interesting you find your life outside of screens, the the less interesting the screens themselves will become.

So here's what I thought would be cool. Today we are going to go through five of the most popular life reset videos on the internet at the moment. I'm then going to extract the best piece of advice from each, which will leave us with sort of five of the best pieces of reset advice out there. We can think of this as like an all-star reset plan. All right, so that's what we're going to do.

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