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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 181: Should I Quit My Lawyer Job?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 71 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:  youtube.com/calnewportmediaCORE IDEA: The Case Against Email [2:52]DEEP WORK QUESTIONS:- How do I balance writing and marketing? [30:32]- How do I find time to time an overwhelming work load? [36:10]- How do I work even deeper? [40:22]- Should I read before or after I write? [45:51]DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS:- Deep living in retirement? [53:07]- Should I quit my lawyer job? [55:24]- Does context switching reduce reading comprehension? [1:07:32]- Does Nicholas Carr’s hyperlink critique hold up? [1:08:15]Thanks to our Sponsors:MyBodyTutor.comBlinkist.com/DeepGrammarly.com/DeepWorkable.com/podcastThanks 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

On Cal Newport, and this is DeepQuest Kids, episode 181.

0:21.7

I'm here as always in my deep work HQ joined by my professor professor, that's the second

0:28.6

time I've done that.

0:31.0

My producer, Jesse, if I keep trying to promote the professor, Jesse, we made a mistake last

0:37.5

week that we've been hearing about, haven't we?

0:41.4

Oh yeah, yeah, we both have been getting emails, he's been getting emails at his address

0:45.6

mind at mine.

0:47.0

Here's what happened.

0:48.6

I mixed up fantasy writer, Brandon Sanderson with writer Pat Ruthfast, and I know the

0:58.3

difference.

0:59.3

I read a bunch of Pat Ruthas, I know Brandon Sanderson, it's just sometimes when you're recording,

1:06.6

your mind is going to a bunch of different places at once and try to set up what's coming

1:09.6

next, and you can fall into these weird traps, like me calling Jesse a professor, and so

1:14.7

I was mixing up Pat with Brandon, and DeepQuest Kids listeners were not happy about that.

1:22.4

We got some emails.

1:23.4

I think, Jesse, you would think based on the number of emails we got and their upsetness

1:30.5

that we had announced that we were starting a new podcast in which me and Vladimir Putin

1:36.8

would try to encourage parents not to vaccinate their children.

1:40.7

You would think that's what we announced based on the volume and negativity of the feedback

1:45.7

for messing up those two authors.

1:49.2

My apologies to Brandon, my apologies to Pat for mixing you up.

1:55.6

I don't think Brandon cares.

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