Ep. 187: Helping 100K Employees Work Deeper

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 76 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/calnewportmediaDEEP DIVE: Quick Social Media (Revisiting my Viral 2017 Talk) [4:50]DEEP WORK QUESTIONS:- Does career capital theory assume meritocracy? [30:31]- Is there a middle ground between shallow and deep work? [34:35]- What tools can help my 100,000 employees be more productive? [37:38]DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS- Is the Deep Life privileged? [47:17]- When is “left to right” planning preferred? [1:07:10]Thanks to our Sponsors:Workable.com/podcastPolicyGenius.comBlinkist.com/DeepAthleticGreens.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 DeepQuestGets, episode 187.
0:22.2	I'm here in my DeepWork HQ, joined by my producer, Jesse.
0:28.8	It's just true that today is your birthday.
0:33.1	It's true.
0:34.1	It's actually true.
0:35.1	Okay.
0:36.1	And...
0:37.1	Is this the big one?
0:38.1	Yeah.
0:39.1	Forty.
0:40.1	That's me in two and a half months.
0:44.1	I was on technically older than you.
0:45.9	Technically older than me.
0:46.9	But we're both having this.
0:47.9	Here's what I'm thinking, because we're both turning 40.
0:51.1	We should have a midlife crisis.
0:53.5	Right?
0:54.5	Like, I feel kind of left out.
0:56.6	I mean, I think...
0:57.6	And so I read this book about midlife crises a couple years ago, written by a philosophy
1:04.0	professor at MIT, and then I was reminded of it because my friend, Brett McCay, was interviewing
1:09.6	him about this book on the Art of Manliness, and it was called Midlife or something like
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