Dr. Cal Newport

It starts with examples.

I mean there should be a book like How to Think that we just give to everyone.

How to think and learn.

Yeah, like how to use your brain, like the user manual.

You know, like that would be a very useful user manual.

And I think in like elite cognitive professions, this gets handed down as lore and people figure it out.

Right.

I mean, like this was like my experience training at MIT in the theory group is that, you know, everything was focused on getting the most out of your mind.

And so it's being passed down from, you know, person to person.

It was also in the culture.

It was in the way that people acted.

But most places that do cognitive work don't have these tools.

Don't have these cultures.

Yeah.

But here's the advantage though.

Like here's the silver lining, right?

If you're one of the few who cares about it, it's a huge advantage right now.

Like it's a big part of like my success.

I don't think I have the highest horsepower brain, but like I care a lot about trying to, you know, get the most out of it.

Like to push it to like the edges of like the reps I can actually, RPMs I can actually get out of it, you know?