234 - Deep Work for Dialed In Priorities
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2016
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Carve out time to do "Deep Work" so you can clearly understand your priorities.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Wienembers my name is Jesse Meekman. This is podcast number 234 for |
| 0:13.7 | YNAP where we teach you four rules to help you stop looking paycheck to paycheck, |
| 0:17.5 | get out of debt and save more money. Talked about a book last week, Titan, |
| 0:22.3 | the biography of John E. Rockefeller, favorite book in the last decade |
| 0:25.1 | of reading that I've done. Another one that I've just finished is called Deep Work. |
| 0:29.9 | It's by Cal Newport. very, very excellent. |
| 0:33.2 | It's all about setting aside time, cutting off, |
| 0:36.6 | carving out moments, long moments, perhaps, |
| 0:40.6 | where you can do your deep best work. |
| 0:43.0 | And I couldn't help it think, as I was reading this, |
| 0:45.0 | I highly recommend it. |
| 0:46.0 | As I was reading this, I was reminded of the deep work that is required, |
| 0:51.0 | the grueling intellectual challenge that it is, to really |
| 0:55.7 | just find out even what you want. |
| 0:59.0 | And we've been kicking around kind of a big change in the Meekham household and it's tough you have to really get to the heart of issues and that requires some deep thinking some long moments of |
| 1:10.4 | concentrated conversation note-taking, analysis. |
| 1:15.0 | And I feel like sometimes we're a little bit too flipping. |
| 1:17.9 | And this is what I liked about the book, |
| 1:19.4 | is if you really want your brain to be unleashed on something, |
| 1:22.0 | if you want problems to be solved |
| 1:24.0 | you have to be willing to sit down and kind of wrestle with an issue |
| 1:28.1 | there are so many fantastic examples of it in there that the invention of the |
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