For many, perhaps most people, life is full of struggles. Your career isn’t where you want it to be. You’re a bit out of shape and really need to start eating better. Your relationship status is complicated. True, the promises of self-help books are often inflated, get-rich-quick schemes turn out to take a long time […]

The following is the third and final lesson from Cal Newport for Focus Week. Click to read the first and second lessons. On Monday, Cal and I will be opening our new course, Life of Focus. We’ll send registration information then. In the meantime, I’ll leave it to Cal for the lesson… In the first lesson of […]

This is the second of a three-part series from Cal Newport called Focus Week. (See the first lesson here.) After the third lesson, we’ll be taking a select group of students in our new course, Life of Focus. The course will take you on a three-month, guided training to build a deeper life. I’ll turn […]

This is the first lesson in a three-part series from Cal Newport called Focus Week. At the end of the week, we’ll be taking a select group of students through the first session of our new course, Life of Focus. I’ll let Cal take it from here… I opened my book Digital Minimalism with an excerpt from an […]