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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You can't just ignore it.

So if you're doing your schedule freestyle,

You have a part of your brain that's always asking you, well, what about now?

What about now?

You know, we're going to have to check it at some point.

And so it's very difficult to resist that voice because it's pretty reasonable.

You're like, okay, I guess we can do it now because it's just telling you we have to check email at some point.

So why not now?

It wears you down.

But if you have a schedule for your day, you're like, no, we're checking email in an hour.

It's on the schedule.

And the only commitment you have to make then is, am I following my schedule or not?

That requires much less mental energy than having to fight with the email advocate inside your brain every minute of every day.

What about now?

You don't want to have to have that fight all the time.

So you put those three things together.

I think you will find the cognitive attraction of email will be significantly attenuated.

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