Cal Newport

Yeah.

It's crazy the things you end up saying no to after a while.

But I mean, there's a currency shift.

For me, time to think is such a valuable... That's a more valuable currency than money, right?

You get to a point where you're like, oh, I'm doing fine.

But if I don't have time to think, what's the point?

And then that becomes this like really rare currency that's much harder to get a hold of.

And that's the only way I can protect it now is anything that requires me to like go somewhere.

It's a default no.

And then I can talk myself...

out of it later right I'm like you know what I could bring my family with that we could have a trip right so actually you know what I will do this or you know I just did a master class course released this week I spent a year and a half saying no

to that.

And then like, eventually I sort of talked myself, I talked to some people, uh, they're like, we'll come to DC to do it.

I talked to, you know, James clear, just done one.

And I had a good talk with him about it.

And I was like, you know what, this is, this will be interesting.

And it took me a year and a half.

Um, but I finally talked myself into it.

So I will say yes, but it just, the default no means that you don't have to high standards.

Yeah.