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The Jesse Mecham Show

275 - Deep Work

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

An Interview with an author of a book that changed my life and is required reading for the entire YNAB team. Every year.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, whinabers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 275 for Wyanab

0:14.8

where we teach you four rules to help you stop looking paycheck to paycheck get out of

0:18.2

debt and save more money. I today am very happy to let you all know that we're about to dive into an

0:26.2

interview with one of my favorite authors. His name is Cal Newport. He has written

0:31.6

several books but the one that has changed my life and changed the lives of many on the Wineab team,

0:37.0

and it is required reading when you come on board is called Deep Work.

0:42.0

A life worth living is a life worth living is a life where deep work is done.

0:47.0

Without further ado, let me cut over to Cal Newport and the interview.

0:51.0

You're going to love it.

0:52.0

All right, I am extremely happy to have Cal Newport on the line with me today.

0:57.0

He is the author of a required reading book at Wienab, which is called Deep Work.

1:02.0

So welcome to the podcast

1:03.6

Cal. Hi thanks for having me. So I'm super excited I didn't think you'd be easy to

1:08.3

get because as you read your book you realize you are very intentional about what you spend your time doing.

1:16.0

So I hope he thinks it'll be useful to spend some time answering some of my questions.

1:20.4

So I'm glad you're here.

1:21.4

Well, you know, I'm a closet personal finance nerd.

1:25.0

So I was excited to see.

1:27.0

I was like, oh, why nap?

1:28.0

Sure, it sounds fun.

1:29.0

Very cool.

1:30.0

I think we read your book, Deep Work, about probably a year ago, maybe a little more than a year ago.

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