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

So when it comes time to do something that requires a lot of focus, they don't just turn their eye from right here to right here.

Okay, I'm done with my email.

Let me start writing my novel.

They have a whole ritual they'll do.

I'm going to brew a certain cup of tea.

I'm going to go for a walk for 10, 15 minutes and just let my head clear.

And then they really care about locations.

All right, for this type of really focused work, I'm doing this somewhere different than where I do my bills and where I do my email.

Mary Oliver really had to get pretty deep into the woods before she could write her poetry.

David McCullough had a really nice home office.

It was very modern at his house in West Tisbury, but he went to this garden shed in his backyard to do the writing.

Because when he got out there, his mind said, it's writing time.

And that's very different from all the exciting stuff happening in his home office, the agents and the publicity.

So rituals and location...

really can make a difference in helping your mind shift from the sort of busy mode to the, I really want to focus and produce something mode.

You take time away from it

to learn what you miss, right?

I call this the digital declutter.

I'm gonna take 30 days without using all the optional digital technologies in my life, the social media, the watching the videos online, et cetera, right?

I wanna see what I miss.

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