Ep. 178: CALLS: On Doing Hard Things

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 71 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/podcastVideo from today’s episode: tinyurl.com/b2rkctfjDEEP DIVE: On Doing Hard Things [4:42] LISTENER CALLS:- People who are bad at planning [31:56]- What did Cal learn from his mom the computer programmer [40:42]- Students working on weekends [45:49]- Living a deep life with anxiety (warning: lecture alert) [56:52]Thanks to our Sponsors:Blinkist: Blinkist.com/DeepAthletic Greens: Athleticgreens.com/deepJUST EGGNew Relic: Newrelic.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 Count Newport, and this is DeepQuestjips, episode 178.
0:21.4	I'm here. My DeepWork HQ joined as usual by my producer, Jesse. Now, Jesse, do I look more
0:31.6	tanned and relaxed? You look very tanned. Like Mark Sisson. Like Mark Sisson. Yeah, I look like a 65
0:39.8	year old man. Like Mark Sisson. I just got back from Mark Sisson's home stopping grounds of Florida
0:47.2	just a few days ago. And let me tell you what the important thing was about that trip.
0:53.6	I didn't work. All right. And that's rare for me because when I go on any type of vacation,
0:58.6	now this was a short one. But when I go on any type of vacation, I pretty soon get antsy.
1:03.2	But I don't have things to think about. If I don't have progress to be making. So I'm usually working
1:07.5	on a writing problem, a writing project, or a math problem trying to solve. And I'll walk the beach
1:13.6	and I'll try to make progress. And I didn't bring anything like that. I didn't write. And I didn't
1:18.9	try to solve anything. I mean, I did a little writing in my head, but I wasn't actually typing
1:23.0	and making progress. And I wasn't trying to solve anything. It was nice. How many books did you read?
1:29.4	12. No. One and a half. One and a half. So, yeah, by the way, what are we now, the 25th or
1:39.5	six? So yeah, we got another book episode. Next time we record, we'll have books. I will admit,
1:45.0	so we're recording this on February 25th. And I finished my five books in February early in
1:50.9	that trip. So now I'm working on two books concurrently that I'll finish in March. So I'm sort of
1:58.0	on my way. And I'm working on a really big book in the background too. And I don't know how to
2:02.3	report that because it's going to take me as an 800 page beast. And so I just work on it a little
2:07.5	bit at a time in the background. And so it doesn't get captured in my monthly reports, but
2:12.8	but that things are rolling along as well. So a lot of good reading got done.
2:16.8	Saw some sun. Saw some dolphins. Did not see Mark Sisson. But it was all in all a good trip. But not
2:24.6	working as a big deal for me is actually wrangling family and looking at the ocean and doing what one
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