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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 19: Calendar Shaming, Digital Detox Struggles, and the Unexpected Challenges of Autonomy | DEEP QUESTIONS

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Self-improvement, Education, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Deep Questions I answer reader questions on calendar shaming, digital detox struggles, and the unexpected challenges of gaining more professional autonomy, among many other topics.I will be sending out a new request for text questions to my mailing list soon. You can sign up for my mailing list at calnewport.com. You can submit audio questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/CalNewportPlease consider subscribing (which helps iTunes rankings) and leaving a review or rating (which helps new listeners decide to try the show).Here’s the full list of topics tackled in today’s episode along with the timestamps:WORK QUESTIONS* Modernizing GTD [2:18]* Calendar Shaming [7:59]* How I keep track of projects [14:15]* Staying relevant when less connected [16:29]* The inherent unpredictability of kids and facing the productivity dragon [19:21]* Quantifying career capital [25:09]AUDIO QUESTION OF THE DAY [28:17]TECHNOLOGY QUESTIONS* Dealing with screen time overload [31:36]* Is a Kindle a screen? [36:32]* The relative depth of books versus podcasts [36.48]* Digital detox struggles [39:26]* Instagram struggles (hint: my suggestion starts with a ‘Q’ and rhymes with ‘bit’) [44:02]QUESTION ROULLETE [45:49]DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS* Interviewing people you want to emulate [49:04]* Dealing with psychological hurdles such as negative self-talk and impostor syndrome  [54:30]* Learning hard things fast [1:03:53]* Vitamin solitude [1:05:24]* The challenges of autonomy [1:07:54]*  Understanding those upset by depth [1:11:05]Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show where I answer queries for my readers about

0:17.8

work, technology, and the Deep Life.

0:27.0

I find myself on this rainy Sunday morning, the Deep Work World Headquarters,

0:30.0

excited about the batch of questions that I have ahead of me here.

0:34.0

I'm hoping we can get through most of them.

0:36.0

I think we have some really interesting topics to tackle.

0:39.0

I mean, I keep saying every week,

0:42.0

look out soon for a new survey being sent to my mailing list at

0:46.4

Kalnupor.com to solicit it more questions.

0:49.8

The problem is, is the last survey I sent in July July it has so many good questions that I

0:54.4

don't get very far before I filled up my whole host my whole show so like what I do

0:58.9

is I'll go through and say okay here's how far I've gotten.

1:03.3

I've looked at all the questions up to, let's say,

1:04.9

question 300 that's been submitted.

1:06.4

So now I'm going to start looking at questions

1:08.0

for this week, starting at question 300.

1:10.7

And the good ones I'll pull out for potential use in the show.

1:15.0

The problem is, is your guys questions are so good.

1:17.1

It's like every question I see becomes when I pull out for the show and I only get through

1:20.7

about a hundred questions before I've filled up my whole show.

1:23.4

So it's taking me longer than I thought to actually get through the questions you've already submitted.

1:28.9

But I think that's a good sign.

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