Ep. 166: LISTENER CALLS: The Deep Life vs. The Good Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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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.OPENING DISCUSSION: How I schedule podcastingLISTENER CALLS:- My thoughts on psychedelics and the pursuit of awe. [8:38]- Time-block planning for the visually impaired. [19:07]- Struggling to escape a job. [23:24]- Concerns about book editors. [33:26]- My blog writing process. [43:41]- The deep life vs. the good life [48:49]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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0:00.0	I'm CalNewPort, and this is DeepQuestions, episode 166.
0:21.4	I'm here in my DeepWorkHQ.
0:24.7	Once again, I am by myself, no Jesse.
0:28.1	It was actually unnecessary just now for me to say once again, because I actually record
0:35.5	each week's episodes back-to-back in one big session.
0:40.3	The fact that Jesse was not here from Monday's episode means a course he wanted to be here
0:44.1	for Thursday's episode, because I recorded Thursday's episode five minutes after I finished
0:48.9	Monday's episode.
0:50.9	I bring this up because people ask me about how I schedule podcasting in my life right
0:56.9	now.
0:57.9	I thought this was something that would be worth briefly talking about, because there's
1:01.4	some general advice we can extract from it, and then we'll get on with the listener calls,
1:05.8	which is our plan for the bulk of today's episode.
1:08.8	When I first started this podcast, it was early in the pandemic.
1:14.2	It was the summer of 2020.
1:16.3	I started with one episode, and I was doing almost everything on my own.
1:19.8	Actually, I think I did everything on my own.
1:22.0	Let's be honest about it.
1:23.0	I did everything on my own.
1:24.0	I would record the episodes, edit the episodes, upload them to the podcast host.
1:31.0	I just did everything, right?
1:32.6	I was doing one, and then eventually pretty soon I added a second episode, because I'd
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