The premise of this chapter is that by cultivating a high-quality leisure life first, it will become easier to minimize low-quality digital diversion… - Cal Newport

Pushing past what’s comfortable, however, is only one part of the deliberate-practice story; the other part is embracing honest feedback — even if it destroys what you thought was good. As Colvin explains in his Fortune article, “You may think that your rehearsal of a job interview was flawless, but your opinion isn’t what counts.” It’s so tempting to just assume what you’ve done is good enough and check it off your to-do list, but it’s in honest, sometimes harsh feedback that you learn where to retrain your focus in order to continue to make progress.

For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life.

Marcus Aurelius asked: “You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life?