Cal Newport

And that there's a real saying no to many more things is actually a way to optimize reward and output, which is not natural.

It doesn't make sense at first.

It doesn't feel like common sense.

So workload and focus training,

You can control those more than you think, and you're going to have huge results from those.

Yeah, it's almost perverse the way that works.

It's like when you have all the time in the world, all you want is opportunities.

And then when you have opportunities, all you want is all the time free in the world.

I had to change.

I don't know what you do, but I had to change my rule at some point.

This was hard for me to the default.

No, that's just how I have to operate now.

Because as soon as you try to have a triage rule,

Well, look, I'm not going to do this opportunity unless I only do speaking gigs that have this much money or this, or I only going to go meet with someone if they're like this interesting or this or that.

Eventually, the number of things that satisfy that criteria overwhelm me just as well.

It's just so I've just had to fall back on the default no.

I've said no to this one several times, by the way.

The amount of invites to Qatar and the UAE and other places, I have said no to many of those.

The default no.

Oh, man.