Cal Newport

All three of, and this might be why this problem's not solved.

There's no one thing to fix, right?

So all three of these things go into the issue and they're each complicated.

To me, I think the big two that give you the biggest results, and I'll tell you the one that's the hardest, and that's why this book probably sold the least.

The big two that gives you the biggest results is taking focus seriously like a skill.

That really does make a difference.

Practicing focus

you get better at it.

And it has a demonstrable difference.

You sit down to work and you're just producing better stuff or you're trying to pick up some complicated new thing.

Like, oh God, I can learn this faster.

That makes a huge difference.

And then the second one, which was more recent in my life was, oh, you really got to control the workload.

So much is downstream from how many things you've agreed to work on.

You have to leave the mindset of everything I say yes to brings with it value.

So saying yes to more things, it's just going to aggregate more value.

That's not the right mindset.

That's not the way.

It's a nonlinear reward function there.

There's a certain point as you add more things that not only does value stop growing, it begins to go down on the other side.