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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 162: LISTENER CALLS: Ambition and the Deep Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Education, Self-improvement

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Below are the topics covered in today's listener calls mini-episode (with timestamps). For instructions on submitting your own questions, go to calnewport.com/podcast. LISTENER CALLS:- Getting better vs. selling harder. [3:29]- Convincing a girlfriend to use less social media [9:15]- Time-blocking tips [20:29]- Ambition and the deep life [26:17]- Advice of an ideal desk set up [32:56] Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Mark Miles for mastering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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in line at the post office.

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My DeepWork HQ is just a block away from the Tacoma Park post office, and every time I

0:23.4

walk by there and see that line, that long, snaking line of socially distanced people I

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