## Highlights
- Strategies for Building a Meaningful Life
- Key takeaways:
- TikTok can be a random addition to one's life with potential business benefits
- It is important to replace low-quality activities with more valuable ones
- Reading daily and taking thinking walks are beneficial habits
- Limiting social media usage can provide a better focus on leisure and entertainment
- Creating a disciplined and organized framework for meaning in life supports easier goal pursuit
- Having a remarkable goal helps overcome challenges and distractions
- Transcript:
```dialogue
left: Cal Newport
< I'm just going to randomly have TikTok in my life because someone somewhere had some scenario in which maybe a post would help the business one day.
< You've got to earn your way into my life.
< Most technology is not going to.
< You replace the cheap stuff with the better stuff. Here's what I do. I read every day.
< Here's when I read.
< I go for these thinking walks in the evening after I shut down work. I don't use any of these social media services, but I get my news from over here. Once a week, I check these people on Instagram, but that's the only time I use it. I'm going to start watching good movies on Fridays.
< In fact, I'm going to go through the AFI Top 100. I'm going to do that for the next 100 weeks. You get on top of what is it that I'm relating to my life when it comes to leisure and entertainment. You dial that in as well. There's going to be much easier to do now because you've already reinvented your identity as yourself as a disciplined person. You already have now committed through practice to a organizing framework for meaning in your life.
< This is a foundation on which to start building these resets. Then finally, step four, pursue a remarkable goal. You have something like Rich Roll training for his outlandish ultra endurance events. You have something that you're turning your energy to and coming back to again and again. When times get tough in the moment, you say, yeah, but I have this bigger thing going on that I want to succeed. I'll go through what's hard right now. You're all under what's hard or I'll endure this distraction and keep coming back to what I think is important. [(Time 0:25:11)](https://share.snipd.com/snip/85920a5c-c20f-400c-ac00-db683b54465f)
```