Dr. Cal Newport

They don't report, I'm less mentally agile.

The information at my fingertips is less.

I'm missing out on life.

There's typically this coming out of the fog on the other side of it where they're like, oh, this is fine.

So, you know, I'm a little bit suspicious about exactly what this mechanism is.

I mean, it's my, it's my superpower.

I don't work that hard in the sense that I don't do long hours.

Like I'm not constitutionally suited for long hours.

This was never my thing.

My brain tires.

I mean I'm good for four, four and a half good hours a day of actually producing good stuff with my brain probably max.

But I don't use my phone that much.

I don't use the internet that much.

And I prioritize it.

And a lot just gets done.

It just sort of piles up over time.

And there's this sense of like you must be burning the midnight oil and you have all these things going on.

But again, people I think underestimate.

And it's not the underestimate the impact of this.

It's not just the accumulation of time you spend looking on your phone.