A World Without Email? | Cal Newport
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Cal Newport, an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, where he specializes in the theory of distributed systems.
Cal is also a New York Times bestselling author who writes about the intersection of technology and culture.
He’s the author of seven books, including Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, which have been published in over thirty languages.
In his latest book titled, A World Without Email, he makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles and concrete instructions for fixing it.
And that sets the tone for this conversation.
We discuss how the modern work ecosystem has created the hyperactive hivemind… where everyone just grabs anyone as needed.
As Cal puts it, it’s convenient and flexible, but it's melting our brains and it's burning us out.
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| 0:00.0 | all of this stuff is trainable. The crazy thing is that almost no one trains it like in athletics |
| 0:04.7 | would be crazy if you like oh I know it's important to have good lungs right I'm playing basketball |
| 0:09.4 | or something but I don't train cardio you know like I don't I don't try to do anything to make it |
| 0:14.8 | better and if you're a knowledge worker or you're creative worker I mean concentrating on one thing |
| 0:20.0 | is like you're you're equivalent of having good cardiovascular health it's like crucial to what |
| 0:25.5 | to do but we just think of it as like a some for some reason we think of focus is this like intrinsic |
| 0:30.0 | trait that some people are just good at and other people aren't and you're like oh I guess I'm not |
| 0:34.4 | a focus person that's like if I went out and ran a mile if I've never done any running it would |
| 0:39.6 | be wrong for me to conclude oh I'm not a running person it would be no I'm not trained to run |
| 0:44.8 | I got to least up the shoes okay welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast |
| 1:00.8 | a Michael Jurvey and by trade and training I am a sport and performance psychologist and the |
| 1:06.0 | whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts |
| 1:10.6 | towards mastery and we want to understand the psychological components that have helped them |
| 1:15.9 | become how do they make sense of themselves how do they make sense of the world around them |
| 1:20.4 | and how do they use their mind to build their skills required to perform and live well in modern |
| 1:27.6 | life and if you want to learn more about how you can train your mind this is just a quick reminder |
| 1:32.5 | to check out the online course that I created with head coach of the Seattle Seahawks Peak Carol |
| 1:37.3 | at finding mastery.net forward slash course and we took all the greatest gems from science |
| 1:44.9 | made it applied all the stuff that we use in the real world to help world class athletes artists |
| 1:50.8 | musicians whatever they might be executives kickass in life and of course in business |
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