Cal Newport

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.

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.