Dr. Cal Newport

Like I can't operate in that space because I worry about it anytime my brain could betray me and I could like lose sleep for a couple of days.

That's the goal, right?

So to me, depending on the season is how extreme that can get.

So the busiest season would be like a teaching semester, right?

But even then, I'm going to make sure that five days a week, I'm starting with deep work.

And the non-teaching days are more than the teaching days.

Compare that to the summer, for example.

All I do for the most part is deep work.

No meetings on Mondays and Fridays.

All admin stuff is midday to early afternoon, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

Everything else is deep work, just locked in hours at a time.

But I want – if I'm not getting five days, five days of starting the day with deep work –

I'm unhappy, right?

Because I mean, I keep coming back to this is, okay, because I'm not going to be able to, I mean, fortunately, the insomnia doesn't bother me in years, but the threat of it like completely shaped the way I think about things.

And because I know I'm never going to be, have sort of like an Elon Musk style energy of like, I can just take on seven companies and make it happen, right?

I just don't have that ability.

I've always focused on the long game.

And to me, the long game plays out with get your deep work time in.

You know, just keep working on the stuff you do best and get better at it.

You know, tomorrow doesn't matter.