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503: Cal Newport | Reimagining Work in a World without Email

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Is Your Phone on Silent Mode?

There's a lot of other interesting psychological concepts in the book that were maybe not super surprising, but it was cool to see science behind this. For example, there was a study that you had written about where you took people's phones away, and you said, ignore it. There's nothing critical coming in. Just focus on this task. And then, i guess they called the phone, and people just, like, could not focus. We think i'm focused on something, but we're kind of not. Because just having your phone screen light up, or be in the same room, or having all of these systems that are kind of broken, even if we're just trying to

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