Deep Work: How to Focus and Resist Distractions (Ep. 100)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Episode 100! Today, I'm talking with Cal Newport once again, this time about how to build your ability to do "deep work" - work that's focused, cognitively challenging, and free of distractions. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Deep Work Why You Should Embrace Boredom and Learn to Do Hard Things - Ransom's post on Deep Work Randall Munroe's (xkcd author) method of avoiding internet distractions Freedom (site and app-blocking app for Mac) SelfControl (free alternative, but doesn't block applications) FocalFilter (similar, but for Windows) Gary Vaynerchuk ScheduleOnce Calendly Why "Follow Your Passion" is Bad Advice (Ep. 35) So Good They Can't Ignore You In Defense of Boredom - a great related article at Brain Pickings Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hey what's up everybody and welcome to the college and
0:40.0	and folk geek podcast.
0:42.0	My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student. And guess what? This is episode 100. Yep, 100 episodes. Over three years of podcasting. I got to say I wasn't quite sure that I'd get this far
0:55.3	when I started this podcast back in 2013, but here we are and man if you've been listening since the
1:00.7	start or if you've been listening for any amount of time
1:02.9	seriously thank you so much for listening I really hope that you found the show
1:06.2	valuable as it's continued to change and evolve over the years and I'm really excited to
1:10.6	see where it goes in the future. But for this particular episode,
1:13.7	I wanted to bring someone back who has been really influential in my life and that person is Cal Newport.
1:19.8	Now I had Cal on the show back in episode 35 and on that episode we talked about this idea that trying to quote unquote find your passion is not really good advice and instead you should focus on building skills and acquiring what he calls career capital and that'll help you on your quest to find work that fulfills you.
1:37.5	And that conversation was based on his book called So Good They Can't Ignore You, which has been on my list of
1:44.0	essential books for students ever since I read it. And actually in January of this
1:48.8	year, Cal published a new book
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