Dr. Cal Newport

Maybe you don't, but you could, right?

But it's the performance state.

not the practicing getting better state.

So to me, flow has like very little role in how I think about what I do as a cognitive professional.

It's just not something that comes up that often.

It's connected because it doesn't really matter to me because what's drawing my attention?

I mean the most important decision I think I made technically speaking to be a cognitive worker is the lack of social media.

Like I think we underestimate the degree to which our problem with digital distraction is not the internet.

It's not our phones.

It is specific products and services that are engineered at great expense to pull you back to them.

When you take that away, the internet is not that interesting.

I don't have a cycle of sites to go to.

I can check my email, but I don't really know where else to go.

I mean I could go to the New York Times I guess, but then you've seen the articles, right?

They change it once a day.

There's just not much.

I've set things up so there's not much that's that interesting to me.

Yeah, I mean, it doesn't happen that much.

I mean, I have a phone, you know.

No, I mean, I have my phone.