Cal Newport

Is there a state where you have too much obligations, right?

I mean, I know you say it's less, this isn't really about simplifying.

That's a different book.

But how do we know, you know, when we're going through this methodology, how might we know of like, you know what, I think I have jammed too much in and taking out some key obligations here are going to open up a lot more possibilities to manage this circus.

How do we know when we actually do need to make some changes to what we're actually trying to do or obligated to do?

I like that heuristic.

Yeah, not that you could do that every night, but if you couldn't do it for some night coming up, then you're probably packed too tight.

Yeah, too many obligations.

So it sounds like tools don't play a major role in the sense of this way of thinking about time.

You should have a calendar.

You should have rules.

You should do a weekly plan to make sure that you're hitting the different rings of the circus that need to be there.

But I read this properly.

Like, this is not...

unlike a lot of time management discussions, it's not a game of tools.

It's not about do you have the right app or just the right planner that you're using to keep track of it.

If anything, you're pretty tool agnostic because you don't need that much complicated of equipment.

This is more of like a mindset process type of approach.

Is that accurate?

I mean, nothing you've discussed so far would be benefited by a complicated tool.