330: How to Ditch Distractions and Get WAY More Done With Cal Newport

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

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🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Incredible show alert! You don’t want to miss this one: Brandon and David sit down with bestselling author Cal Newport (who wrote So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, and so on) to discuss just what makes high performers different than the rest. Cal shares incredible insight based on his research as a professor at Georgetown University, including how boredom can serve a very useful purpose, how to improve your focus to master your craft, and how building “career capital” can open doors to the life you’ve always wanted. Cal also shares life-changing advice on how starting the day in “monk mode” can supercharge your productivity, how to set better expectations with team members, and how to rebuild your digital life in 30 days. This episode is so good you’ll feel guilty you didn’t have to pay. Download it today! In This Episode We Cover: Cal’s story Improve your focus and remove distractions to increase productivity How to combine “deep work” with “shallow work” to stay mentally energized Building career capital you can then invest to build a better life What successful people do that unsuccessful people don’t How to set better expectations with team members How to start your day in “monk mode” and be insanely productive How to give your hours a job and make time work for you How to use boredom to recharge and motivate you His thoughts on social media and how it can rob you of time Taking the information you’re learning and letting it sink in Detox and rebuild your digital life in 30 days And SO much more! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Webinar BiggerPockets Pro BiggerPockets Calc BiggerPockets Podcast 329: Financial Freedom Before 30 Through Just 10 Deals With Felipe Mejia BiggerPockets Podcast 327: The “Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat” Method Made Simple With David Greene LinkedIn Moment App Realtor.com Books Mentioned in this Show Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki Lifeonaire by Steve Cook So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport The 4-Hour Week by Timothy Ferriss Deep Work by Cal Newport Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Gates by Stephen Manes Connect with Cal Cal’s Personal Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the BiggerPockets Podcast Show 330.
0:04.0	And so if you're always consuming information,
0:06.0	but you're never actually giving yourselves the hours of just there
0:10.0	alone with your thoughts, you really are going to be impoverished in terms of how much value you can
0:14.0	extract from it. Time alone with our own thoughts is crucial. Boredum should be something we don't try
0:18.7	to get rid of cheaply, but something we should let drive us to real action. Both of those things are crucial.
0:23.6	You're listening to Bigger Pockets Radio,
0:26.2	simplifying real estate for investors large and small.
0:29.9	If you're here looking to learn about real estate investing without all the height, you're in the right place.
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0:41.8	Your home for real estate investing online
0:45.0	What's going on everyone my name is Brandon Turner
0:47.0	Host of the Bigger Pockets podcast here with my co-host David green.
0:52.0	What's up David? Not much man. It's actually going
0:55.1	really good over on this end. We got springtime here the sun is nice there's a
0:59.0	bunch of people looking to sell their houses the market's kind of picking up in the
1:02.0	Bay Area and so I'm a happy camper.
1:05.0	Nice. Hey, I had a reporter reach out to me the other day and he was asking me questions about, he said,
1:10.0	I feel like, he said he feels like his research is showing him that the market is slowing
1:14.2	especially on the west coast have you found that to be true well it did but that was
1:17.6	just seasonal part of that was seasonal and coupled with a spike in interest rates they went up like three times over a six-week period or something
1:24.0	and it's like a body blow to buyers when they're like, oh, right? Like, my payment just went up 200 bucks.
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