This routine is designed to help you establish a daily practice of deep, focused work. It incorporates techniques from Cal Newport's books, such as 'Deep Work' and 'Slow Productivity,' to help you optimize your productivity and avoid distractions. The routine includes protocols for managing your workload, scheduling focused work sessions, and establishing healthy boundaries between work and personal life.

In this episode, my guest is Dr. Cal Newport, Ph.D., a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and bestselling author of numerous books on focus and productivity and how to access the deepest possible layers of your cognitive abilities in order to do quality work and lead a more balanced life. We discuss how to avoid digital distraction, specific systems to best arrange and update your schedule, and how to curate your work and home environment. We discuss how to engage with smartphones and technology, the significant productivity cost of task-switching, and how to avoid and overcome burnout. This episode provides specific protocols for enhancing focus and productivity, time management, task prioritization, and improving work-life balance that ought to be useful for anyone, young or old, regardless of profession.

The morning routine I have adopted for the last six months from over eight years of testing, and the bulk of it has primarily been taken from Andrew Hubermans work.

Use deliberate cold and heat exposure to support circadian rhythm for optimal wake and sleep cycles

Protocols from Huberman Lab episode #66 on deliberate use of cold and episode # 69

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