Noah Kagan Presents

How to Focus and Think (Cal Newport)


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Check out my book Million Dollar Weekend, which helps you start businesses in just 48 hours. Check it out at milliondollarweekend.com.

In today's episode, I caught up with a talented, award-winning author and professor of computer science at Georgetown University, Cal Newport.

Cal's books are a manifesto for digital minimalism and focus. In this episode he shares his strategies for maintaining efficiency particularly in large organizations where meetings can often be a substitute for poor time management.

We also explore how long-term goals can easily be broken down into actionable daily steps and the importance of grabbing control of our digital habits.

In this episode, you'll enjoy 3 BIG things:

  • What the difference is between office hours and meetings and why you should avoid the later

  • Why focus is the most in demand resource right in world with short attention span

  • How to balance the content creation algorithms without being on social media at all.

All these plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

If you loved this episode and want to hear more about how we approach our content creation, check out an episode we made about Youtube strategy that's Episode 310 in this feed.

Also check out Cal's books at calnewport.com , his books 'Deep Work' and 'So Good they Can't Ignore You' are classics and he has a new book called 'Slow Productivity' out now.

Go check his podcast since that's really his only social media outlet, Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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