Dr. Cal Newport

I guess if I'm working away from it, yeah, I guess it's true if there was an emergency.

But this was the case for a very long time, right?

We didn't have smartphones till really relatively recently.

This is, you know, 15 years ago.

So we were just used to this until yesterday, essentially, that there's just periods of time where you're out of touch.

Like you're at a restaurant with someone.

you're out of touch until you get back to your office.

Like we were okay.

You know, we weren't plagued by emergencies that led to disastrous results because we couldn't hear about it right then.

You go to the movies, like you're out of touch, right?

And be a couple hours till you're in touch again.

And so, you know, it's not something that's affected me as much.

So maybe I'm working without my phone nearby.

A lot of people have this response.

They begin sort of catastrophizing.

Like what if this happens or this or that?

And I'm thinking I survived before that.

My parents survived without that.

My grandparents survived without that.

I don't worry about it as much.