Ep. 173: What is Deep Work?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 68 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 IDEA: Deep Work [5:10]DEEP WORK QUESTIONS:- How much should I care about promoting my work? [28:07]- When do you write your weekly plan? [33:22]- What does Cal think about digital notebooks? [34:00]- Why is everyone so bad at email? [36:45]- What is Cal’s advice for a distracted high school student? [40:02]DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS:- Does disconnection improve creativity? [50:57]- How do I teach my kids to focus? [57:52]- How do I get my students off their phones? [1:02:20]- What does Cal think about the book “Four-Thousand Weeks”? [1:05:21]Thanks to our Sponsors:My Body Tutor: MyBodyTutor.com: Mention “Deep Questions” for $50 off 1st monthAthletic Greens: Athleticgreens.com/deepStamps.com: Stamps.com - Use promo code “Deep”Grammarly: Grammarly.com/DeepThanks 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 DeepQuestJent, episode 173.
0:22.0	I'm here in the DeepWork HQ, joined by my producer, Jesse.
0:28.0	I've been hearing feedback that these core ideas segments that we're doing, people like them.
0:33.5	Yeah, we just got them published on YouTube today, so they can listen on the podcast,
0:38.9	and they can listen to it on YouTube as well.
0:41.3	I think the factor on YouTube now is a big deal.
0:44.4	So for people who don't know the core ideas segments, we've been doing these in recent episodes.
0:48.8	It's where I do a deep dive on one of the basic core ideas I come back to again and again.
0:54.8	I forget how used to I am with some of these notions, because I've been writing about them and
0:59.5	talking about them for in some cases decades. But I forget that not everyone is so familiar,
1:05.9	so we're going through and taking some of the core ideas and let's just walk through it from scratch.
1:10.8	Now these segments are beginning to appear on YouTube. You can actually now go back and
1:14.2	reference a particular core idea segment without having to find the podcast episode in which I
1:21.2	talk about it and fast forward to the part where I talked about it. So I believe as of the day
1:25.7	we're recording this episode, we can find the on YouTube, the core idea segment on time management,
1:32.7	on slow productivity, and on my thoughts around passion and career satisfaction.
1:38.9	Going forward as you hear new core ideas segments, those will go online pretty soon afterwards.
1:44.4	What do we think, Jesse? Usually like a couple days after the episode airs.
1:47.0	Yeah, be quick. Yeah. A couple days.
1:49.2	They're in their own playlist. We'll put them in their own playlist so they will be easy to find.
1:54.4	I'm going to do a new core idea segment to start today's episode. But first,
2:00.6	first I want to do a quick plug, and I will explain why I'm doing this plug here in a second,
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