Thinking:

Cal Newport:

"but when I say think here I mean something very specific: I mean giving sustained attention to potentially complicated or ambiguous information with the ultimate goal of building a new conceptual structure that has value to yourself or to the world."

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"most people prioritize a sort of high energy emotion in the moment over the subtler satisfactions of real understanding and appreciation"

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"improve the quality and decrease the quantity of information that you consume"

"stop using social media algorithms to curate your news flow"

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"when there's something going on in the world you care about, you should get a book written by an expert, someone who has spent years working on this artifact, based on many more years of actually engaging with these topics. And you get this beautiful artifact that you can hold and consume in about a week or two that is going to give you as deep or nuanced an understanding of a topic as you're ever likely to get outside of actually studying that topic professionally."

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"if your brain is used to this idea that it is never bored, that when it lacks novel stimuli you will always feed it a shiny digital treat in the form typically of your phone or an iPad or a browser tab that's going to give you something emotionally salient in the moment, it can't tolerate serious thinking"