How to Focus and Think (Cal Newport)

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Noah Kagan

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Check out my book Million Dollar Weekend, which helps you start businesses in just 48 hours. Check it out at milliondollarweekend.com.

In today's episode, I caught up with a talented, award-winning author and professor of computer science at Georgetown University, Cal Newport.

Cal’s books are a manifesto for digital minimalism and focus. In this episode he shares his strategies for maintaining efficiency particularly in large organizations where meetings can often be a substitute for poor time management.

We also explore how long-term goals can easily be broken down into actionable daily steps and the importance of grabbing control of our digital habits.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things:

What the difference is between office hours and meetings and why you should avoid the later
Why focus is the most in demand resource right in world with short attention span
How to balance the content creation algorithms without being on social media at all.

All these plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

If you loved this episode and want to hear more about how we approach our content creation, check out an episode we made about Youtube strategy that’s Episode 310 in this feed.

Also check out Cal’s books at calnewport.com , his books ‘Deep Work’ and ‘So Good they Can’t Ignore You’ are classics and he has a new book called ‘Slow Productivity’ out now.

Go check his podcast since that’s really his only social media outlet, Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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0:00.0	they are taking these drives that should push you to be a better person and they're aiming them at these online tools or these digital tools
0:06.4	where instead of helping making you and your community and your family and friends and being better for them
0:11.2	and improving like the real world, it improves the stock price of like three companies.
0:15.0	It's like a masterful subversion of what makes humans.
0:18.0	What is up you sexy bastards? It is your boy Ace Ventura aka
0:24.9	rabbi can't lose aka noa kegan. In today's episode I caught up with the
0:30.0	talented legendary award-winning author and amazing professor of computer science at
0:35.8	Georgetown University, the Cal Newport. Cal Newport and I talked and I literally right
0:41.1	after this episode went out for a walk and was just like damn this was such a good episode I can't wait to listen to it myself and share it with you now in this episode
0:49.5	Cal breaks down even further and I think really eloquently digital minimalism focus why
0:55.4	sometimes we do meetings instead of time management if you've been looking to have
0:59.0	more fun in life being less meetings be more productive and live a chill life where you're really happy and
1:05.4	content.
1:06.4	I think you can just love how he talks about it in this episode and he breaks it down into
1:10.2	actionable steps that we can all do. Now here's three gigantic things you're going to take away.
1:14.9	Number one, how do you actually make a week that you love to do?
1:18.6	Cal is going to share a lot of details about his own week. Number two, why focus is so damn important and how we can all get better at it?
1:26.6	And number three, maybe we shouldn't care about all this content creation algorithms that we're all trying
1:31.7	to optimize for as content
1:32.9	creators and do something different.
1:35.1	You're going to enjoy that, plus a bunch more earnuggets
1:37.2	along the way.
	...

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