Ep. 170: CALLS: Don’t Follow Your Passion

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). For instructions on submitting your own questions, go to calnewport.com/podcast.Video from today’s episode: https://tinyurl.com/b2rkctfjCORE IDEA: Don’t Follow Your Passion [3:07]- Dividing time between multiple pursuits. [17:38]- Implementing ideas from A World Without Email in small businesses. [22:17]- Estimating the tie required to complete tasks. [27:42]- Organizing household space for productivity. [34:12]- Tips for passing a highly competitive exam. [43:01]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

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport, and this is DeepQuestjips Episode 170.
0:21.5	Here in the DeepWork HQ, joined us by Jesse, we're going to be doing a listener calls episode
0:27.6	where we take your calls to answer.
0:31.9	As always, go to calnewport.com slash podcast to get the instructions on how YouTube can
0:37.0	record a call for one of these listener calls episodes.
0:41.1	We are, as we talked about in the last episode, releasing all of these calls on YouTube.
0:47.3	You go to our YouTube channel within a couple of days after this episode, airing, if all
0:52.6	goes well, you should see individual videos uploaded for every call we capture today.
0:57.6	We will also see a video of the entire episode we do these live for beginning to end one
1:02.7	take.
1:03.7	If you prefer to watch, instead of listen, there will also be within a couple of days,
1:08.1	the whole episode will be available live online.
1:13.3	For now, we'll just put the link for the YouTube channel will be in the show notes.
1:20.1	Then we will have a personalized YouTube URL, Jesse can probably fill us into here.
1:27.6	Jesse, there's some rules, right?
1:29.0	Like, before YouTube will give you YouTube.com slash something simple, there's some hurdles
1:35.1	we have to do, right?
1:36.3	Yeah, so we just need a hundred subscribers, which we already have and need to be up for
1:40.2	30 days.
1:41.2	I was confused whether that was like, unlisted videos or published videos, but I think
1:45.8	it's published videos.
1:47.8	Yeah, just once we hit those things, then we can get a simple name and they'll be rocking
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