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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 190: CALLS: Managing Idea Notebooks

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 63 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/calnewportmediaCAL REACTS TO THE NEWS : Elon Joins the Twitter Board [1:32]QUESTIONS:- Managing idea notebooks [24:19]- Doctor who wants to learn advanced math  [29:56]- Obsessed with instant messaging [34:17]- Tempering a racing mind [47:35]- Selecting good keystone habits [54:50]Thanks to our Sponsors:MyBodyTutor.comExpressVPN.com/DeepWorkable.com/PodcastGrammarly.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

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Cal Newport, and this is Deep Questions, episode 190.

0:21.0

I'm here my deep work HQ, joined by my professor, professor.

0:26.4

I'm back to that again.

0:29.1

And by my producer, professor Jesse, I'm still sick, Jesse.

0:35.2

This is why I'm mixing up your title.

0:38.1

But again, as we talked about last time, I am a hero before continuing to podcast even

0:47.0

though I have a bad cold.

0:49.6

It's kind of funny a lot of times you say professors, and now when you say producer, I get

0:52.6

thrown off.

0:53.6

Yeah, I'm trying to, I've been trying to pressure you to go back to school is what this is

0:58.8

about.

0:59.8

It's subliminal, subliminal, subliminal pressuring.

1:03.5

We had a question.

1:04.5

We didn't do it.

1:05.5

But one of the questions we were considering was from, maybe it was one of the calls, was

1:09.6

from someone who wanted to like later in life study theoretical mathematics.

1:15.0

Yeah.

1:16.4

Yeah.

1:17.4

Was that you?

1:18.4

They called in.

1:19.4

You've been inspired.

1:20.4

He was a doctor.

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