I'm Count Newport, and this is DeepQuestJewd, episode 186.

I'm here in my DeepWork HQ, joined by my producer, Jesse.

Jesse, when this episode airs, not right now, but when this airs, I will hopefully be a much more relaxed person.

As I've talked about on the show, and you know all too well, I've been in this busy period at Georgetown.

All good things, we're recruiting, we're on campus again, we're meals and seen people, but it's unusual for me.

Basically, every day, I'm on campus all day.

There's a lot of moving parts, and that's not usually the way I operate best, and it's a lot stressful.

It makes me anxious.

I don't sleep very well.

When I have a million moving parts going on in my schedule and ambiguous logistics, my body just rejects that.

It's like rejecting a transplanted organ or something, it's like, uh, but on Tuesday of this week, this comes out that winds down.

So when this episode itself airs on Thursday, just imagine me join like a nice cold beer somewhere with my feet up, and my laptop with my email inbox open.

Just smashed in a corner, you know, just straight up office space, beat it with bats, won't be needing you ever again.

So I'm looking forward to that.

I'm looking forward to the future version of me that's that's listening to this, uh, listening to this episode.

So last week, we introduced a new segment, which was crazy or deep.

People seem to like so the idea was we introduce a idea that we try to figure out is this, uh,

like a deep idea is embracing the deep life, or is it just crazy?

And so last week, just a quick update on last week's last weeks, I talked about how I was reading because I felt like it was important.

If I for my work on the deep life that I finally read Thomas Merton's seven story mountain, and I had it on my Kindle, and it just wasn't working.

I wasn't getting into it.

And so I bought a version, but not just any version.

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