Ep. 179: Do Techniques Beat Talent?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 61 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: youtube.com/calnewportmediaThe Books I Read in February 2022 [4:45] DEEP WORK QUESTIONS:- Can you implement Cal’s productivity tips without time-blocking? [32:46]- Does technique beat talent? [37:28]- Do you recommend multiple email accounts for someone who works at different institutions? [43:12]- Can intense collaborative work be considered deep? [44:52]DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS:- Are podcasts good for you? [52:11]- Can you elaborate on concentration calisthenics? [57:29]Thanks to our Sponsors:PolicyGenius: policygenius.comWorkable: workable.com/podcastExpressVPN: expressvpn.com/deepAthletic Green: athleticgreens.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 CalNewPork and this is DeepQuestions, episode 179.
0:21.7	I'm here in my DeepWork HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse, it seems like we have
0:29.9	two arbitrary milestones, one that we've reached to one that's coming up. So the one that we've
0:36.6	reached, which we didn't notice, because we're busy, was to 5 million download milestone. I've
0:42.9	been tracking that for a while and then forgot about it and what we hit it. So I guess we're now
0:47.6	a 5 million download show. So we got that in our first, before we got to year two, before we
0:52.6	finished two years. So that's impressive. It's something. You know, now we're doing a million
0:57.6	downloads every three months. So that's accelerating. The other arbitrary milestone, I guess, is
1:05.2	episode 200. That feels like something. For sure. Yeah. I don't know what to do about it, but let's
1:11.4	see, we're at 180 on Thursday's episode. So we got to get 20 more. We do two weeks, 10 weeks.
1:17.6	Okay. That's early summer. Yep. All right. Blow out. Blow out when we get the episode 200. We
1:25.6	will have a, we will have a huge audience. We'll do something. We'll do something big. Maybe not
1:32.8	around here. I got, let me tell you, speaking of having crowds around here, I have my Starbucks coffee,
1:38.2	I grabbed this morning and I felt like I had to solve the riddle of this finks to try to figure
1:45.8	out what to do with this Starbucks and wearing a mask. So for deep question listeners, we don't talk
1:52.7	a lot about COVID, but this town, which is right on the border DC is probably one of the more COVID
1:58.7	cautious places in the country. This in San Francisco and a few other places for better, for worse,
2:05.2	but now it's starting to confuse me because I went to the Starbucks today and they had a sign
2:10.2	that said two things. So one, masks are recommended. And then below it, it said, we would appreciate
2:20.2	if you still follow the CDC guidance. Well, the CDC guidance for DC, where the Starbucks is,
2:29.0	is not the wear mask indoors. It's low prevalence. They do not recommend wearing masks indoors,
2:34.0	including in large congregate setting, even with young people and not vaccinated. So the CDC
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