Ep. 171: Is Slow Productivity the Solution to Burnout?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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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: tinyurl.com/b2rkctfjCORE IDEAS: Is Slow Productivity the Solution to Burnout? [2:58]DEEP WORK QUESTIONS:- How does Cal manage information? [35:56]- What notebooks does Cal use? [38:52]- What’s the deep approach to job searching? [44:20]- What did Cal’s readers learn about deep work? [48:00] -Can I work deeply for more than 4 hours a day? [55:46]DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS:- How should Cal’s time management advice be adjusted for students from underrepresented backgrounds? [1:04:58]- How do I survive college admissions craziness? [1:09:47]Thanks to our Sponsors:Policy Genius: Policygenius.comCentered: centered.app/deepquestionsMagic Spoon: magicspoon.com/calExpressVPN: expressvpn.comThanks 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 Cal Newport and this is DeepQuestions episode 171.
0:21.6	So I'm here in my DeepWork HQ rainy cold day so it's one of those rare days I'm actually
0:28.2	happy to be in a windowless room joined as always by my producer Jesse so Jesse we're what two weeks
0:36.2	now into having the YouTube channel up that features video of every single question that we answer
0:43.2	on this podcast as well as video of every deep dive as well as video of all full episodes we're
0:48.6	two weeks into it what's our report how are things going things are going pretty good I think the
0:53.2	process is getting honed in and people are watching the videos you're getting a bunch of subscribers
0:58.8	so keep on putting out more videos and getting bumpers and beginnings a little bit tighter so
1:05.9	all in all the progress is going pretty good good yeah and the what Jesse was hinting at there is
1:10.8	we have a nice visual makeover coming so that the briefly the design firm that is working on
1:18.3	the portal in which you're going to be able to find all these videos and Netflix style carousels
1:23.4	without having to go to YouTube they are helping us just overhaul the look of the YouTube page so
1:29.7	it'll be consistent with the new portals we have nice nice new looking graphics and logos and
1:34.8	bumpers all that's coming but Jesse and I got impatient we didn't want to wait for all of that
1:39.2	to be done before we got these videos up here so we just went ahead so you'll notice over time
1:45.4	things get better and better looking so we'll make the bumpers better looking we'll have the
1:49.9	the logos look better eventually we'll use deep fake technology to have a more attractive man
1:57.3	you'll hear my voice but coming from like a much more attractive man we're thinking like a
2:01.2	like a young Harrison Ford or something like this so all that is coming for those of you who care
2:06.1	about care about the aesthetics all right so here's our plan for today I want to continue with these
2:13.7	core idea deep dive segments we've been doing and again the the concept here is I want to go back to
2:21.2	a lot of the big ideas that I reference frequently on this show and do a deep dive dedicated to
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