Dr. Cal Newport

But if you're doing this most days for the next four months, like that's going to matter, you know.

And so I often think about productivity in my own life at the scale of decades.

What do I want to do in my 20s?

You know, okay, what do I want to do in my 30s?

You know, what do I want to do in my 40s?

You know, and that helps.

Like in my 30s, I had a lot of young kids.

Like it's – yeah, I mean the amount of time I could spend –

total working is like much less, right?

But I could still think about what do I want to do in my 30s?

How do I make that happen?

Let me make sure I'm pushing like on those things.

Then everything else I can adapt to, I can give here and there.

You know, it allows you to be very adaptable when you're thinking about what do I want to do, you know, for the next 10 years.

It also means you're not on a random Tuesday.

Chiding yourself because like why didn't I get three more hours of work in?

That becomes sort of a nonsensical question.

And what you care about is like what happens in the next decade, which is – that's the long game.

It's not about hustling today.

It's about I came back to deep work day after day after day when other people got distracted by TikTok.