Cal Newport

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1,088 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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The Liz Moody Podcast · How To Work Less This Summer (And Still Get MORE Done) · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Once people learn, you're on the ball.

Here's your system.

Okay, it's great.

You're the person we come to to ask questions.

Hey, what do you think about this new planner?

You've just gained yourself a lot of flexibility.

Well, you don't have to put fewer eggs in the basket.

We can work with this metaphor a little bit, right?

Like imagine you have 12 eggs that you want to cook.

If you try to cook all 12 eggs at the same time, it's really hard to keep track of them and it's really messy.

So instead, imagine I just cook one egg at a time.

And it turns out I cook the eggs much better.

So a lot about doing less doesn't necessarily mean accomplishing less total things.

It means working on less things concurrently.

So you have less administrative overhead at any one moment, which means you're actually finishing things faster and at a higher level of quality.

So just by simply saying, I do the same number of things by only work on a small number of things at a time, the amount of things you'll accomplish, let's say in a year will be higher because I agree with you.

Now, this idea of having a few pursuits, like you really spend a lot of time with that does come as you get more interested in quality and craft, you'll find yourself naturally as you get better and better at certain things, the projects will get longer and

And there'll be fewer things you work on.

But it's not fundamental that right away you have to say, I am just going to do this one thing.

I'm going to write this novel and it's going to be great or it's going to be a real problem if it's bad.

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