Full show notes and worksheet for this episode here: https://jordanharbinger.com/159 What if you don’t really need to be smarter or more educated than everybody else to get what you want out of life? What if the real trick is just finding a way to be more focused than everybody else? The distractions of modern living might make this seem like an equally difficult task, but in this episode we talk to someone who knows how to close out the mental clutter and get things done. Cal Newport is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and author of several best-sellers, including Deep Work and his latest, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. In it, he makes the case for why focus is actually the new IQ and explains what you can do to use the technology at your disposal to enhance that focus rather than detract from it. What We Discuss with Cal Newport: 💡Why focus in our modern era of endless technological distractions is the new IQ. 💡Why your greatest competitive advantage may lie simply around decluttering and resetting that focus. 💡The best ways to declutter the mental landscape to optimize your capacity to focus. 💡How Henry David Thoreau’s analog lessons from Walden can be applied to your 21st century digital lifestyle. 💡How you can use technology to improve your daily life without becoming absorbed by its distractions. 💡And much more… 📖Digital Minimalism on Amazon: Buy on Amazon: https://geni.us/g8MVSq Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show here: http://www.jordanharbinger.com/subscribe/ Follow Jordan and The Jordan Harbinger Show __________________________________________________________________ Website: http://www.jordanharbinger.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejordanharbingershow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanharbinger/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanharbinger/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordanharbinger/ Subscribe: http://www.jordanharbinger.com/subscribe/