Dr. Cal Newport

But you do have to have some tolerance for it.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, professors feel this all the time, right?

At least a lot of ones I've talked to with peer reviews.

So I don't know if you've had this experience, but you're like reviewing a paper.

I often have this experience where when I'm first engaging with the paper, I feel incredibly frustrated.

Like I don't quite understand what they're doing here.

Like this mathematics isn't quite making sense to me.

And it'll often be the fact I come back later and

Like, well, let me just like write up what I have so far.

And your understanding is like much, much better, right?

So there's this sense of maybe something's being processing.

I took that so seriously when I was especially a postdoc, like when I was at the height of just all I do in my life is produce value with my brain.

Every day I would do what I call thorough walks because I discovered thorough while a grad student.

I read it down by the Charles, like the full sort of, you know.

Just minus the beret, like pretentious grad student thing.

But I was really into the Walden.

Real influential book for me.

So every day when I would walk back, I was living on Beacon Hill, walking from MIT.

So people who know Boston, it's going across the Longfellow Bridge.