233: How to Make Deep Work Happen, with Cal Newport

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Cal Newport: Deep Work Cal Newport, author of Deep Work*, teaches us the rules for focused success in a distracted world. Key Points The Four Rules of Deep Work: Work Deeply Embrace Boredom Quit Social Media Drain the Shallows How to get started with Deep Work: Train your brain to be better at focusing (example: put your phone away after dinner) Set aside time for deep work (example: set aside five hours a week for deep work) Make a move in your life that signals to yourself that you take the ability to focus seriously (example: quitting a social media service) Quotes A big problem with a lot of these attention-stealing technologies is that we’ve adopted … the “any benefit mindset” for tool adoption. –Cal Newport You have to wean [your brain] off its dependence on novel stimuli every time you feel a little bored. –Cal Newport I think focus is the new IQ, and that deep work is going to become one of the most valuable skills as our economy gets more competitive and more complex. –Cal Newport In almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. –Cal Newport It’s wrong to assume you automatically have the right to work whatever schedule you want. –Cal Newport Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	Are you getting work done that matters or are you logging hours getting pulled in all kinds of different directions?
0:08.0	If what you want is to create more opportunities to do really deep and meaningful work.
0:15.0	Stick around because Cal Newport is here to show us how.
0:18.4	This is coaching for leaders episode 233.
0:22.4	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:27.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your
0:37.0	host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show will give you access to the best
0:45.0	thinkers, resources, and actions that will help you to develop your leadership
0:51.1	skills and I'm so glad that you have joined me today because I have
0:55.8	a guest today that someone that I've admired in their professional work and someone who I followed
1:02.4	very closely and has definitely influenced
1:05.5	my thinking about how I approach my work and I know that his perspective will really be helpful
1:12.0	to all of us and how we can really focus and to be helpful to all of us and how we can really focus and
1:14.7	to be able to get the results in our work and our careers that many of us are
1:18.2	shooting for but also find challenging in the environment that we find ourselves in today and my guest today is
1:25.1	Cal Newport. Cal is an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown
1:29.6	University and the author most recently of the new book Deep Work, a book which argues that
1:36.0	focus is the new IQ in the modern workplace. He's also previously the author of a book many of you may have heard of so good that they can't ignore you,
1:45.6	a book which debunks the long-held belief that follow your passion is good advice.
1:50.9	And Cal has published close to 50 peer-reviewed papers as an academic, which is huge.
1:56.5	For those of you know anything about the work professors do, he's earned over 2,500 citations,
2:01.8	written five books selling over 200,000 copies, has a very popular blog,
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