“ In an open marketplace for attention, darker emotions attract more eyeballs than positive and constructive thoughts. Cal Newport
“ I felt like I was stretching to convince the world that my work was interesting, yet no one cared. Cal Newport
“ You might institute a ban on any Internet use, or maintain a metric such as words produced per twenty-minute interval to keep your concentration honed. Without this structure, you’ll have to mentally… Cal Newport
“ Network tools are distracting us from work that requires unbroken concentration, while simultaneously degrading our capacity to remain focused. Cal Newport
“ Minimalists don’t mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good. Cal Newport
“ In many cases these addictive properties of new technologies are not accidents, but instead carefully engineered design features. Cal Newport
“ When experts exhibit their superior performance in public their behavior looks so effortless and natural that we are tempted to attribute it to special talents, Ericsson notes. Cal Newport
“ The second reason is that the subversive decision to pursue FI at a young age, which typically leads to radical lifestyle decisions, self-selects for individuals who are unusually intentional about ho… Cal Newport
“ The premise of this chapter is that by cultivating a high-quality leisure life first, it will become easier to minimize low-quality digital diversions later. Cal Newport
“ The fault of the courage culture, therefore, is not its underlying message that courage is good, but its severe underestimation of the complexity involved in deploying this boldness in a useful way. Cal Newport
“ Ryan and Sarah have heaps of control in their working lives, and this is what makes the Red Fire lifestyle so appealing. Cal Newport
“ Open offices, for example, might create more opportunities for collaboration,* but they do so at the cost of massive distraction, to quote the results of experiments conducted for a British TV special… Cal Newport
“ Maher looked into the camera and said: The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts se… Cal Newport
“ If you’re not focusing on becoming so good they can’t ignore you, you’re going to be left behind. Cal Newport
