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Dr. Cal Newport

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Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

That's been a signal for my โ€“

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

my life since I was in my early 20s.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

Fix the schedule and don't work outside of that schedule.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

Now it's your move to figure out anything you want to do, you have to make that work.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

You want to become a professor, figure out how to make that work.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

You want to write books while you're being a professor, figure out how to make that work.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

You don't have the option of just throwing hours at it.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

And you innovate a lot, I think, when you have the constraints.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

Yeah.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

So, I mean, my main, like actual working with weights, I do this pre-dinner, right?

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

And this was an innovation in the last couple of years.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

It's, it's a fantastic psychologically for me.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

This is a transition from work to

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

to like family time after work.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

So I'll do like 45, 50 minutes garage gym that we built during COVID after I'm done working before dinner.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

And once you get used to that, like it also forces you to like, I got to finish work because I got to get this in before dinner.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

But then I'll do also quite a bit of walking if it's not a teaching day.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

So I'm not on campus.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

I do a lot of thinking on foot, walking my kids to the bus stop, which isn't particularly close and back.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Cal Newport: How to Enhance Focus and Improve Productivity

So I'll do a lot of walking.