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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 199: Quieting an Ambitious Brain

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 70 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/calnewportmediaUpdate on Cal’s book writing [ 2:03]WORK QUESTIONS- How do I get my family and friends to take my profession seriously? [14:11]- How should we adjust our work for the arrival of our first baby? [21:33]- Do maximum deep work durations depend on the type of work? [28:10]- How do I overcome the sense of being overwhelmed by all of my goals? [31:21]TECHNOLOGY QUESTION- What are the most important trends in technology at the moment? [37:25]DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS- Does reading too many books dilute their impact? [1:01:01]- How do I turn off my ambitious mind? [1:02:35]- How do I get back on the productivity horse after I fall off? [1:05:05]Thanks to Our Sponsors:EightSleep.com/DeepBlinkist.com/DeepGrammarly.com/DeepMyBodyTutor.com  Thanks 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 New Pork and this is DeepQuestGest, episode 199.

0:22.9

I'm here in my DeepWork HQ.

0:26.2

So Jesse today, that's my fault not his, I missed our last recording session, I had some

0:34.0

travel and then I had a touch of the COVID.

0:36.8

I was thinking about waiting until our next recording session to record this episode in

0:41.8

the next back to back, but I wanted to get this out as quickly as possible.

0:46.0

So as soon as I could break free from isolation, I ran over here to try to knock out this episode,

0:53.7

it'll be a little bit late this week, but hopefully not too late.

0:59.0

So since it was just me, I figured what if we did a blast from the past?

1:05.7

What if I actually structured today's episode the same way I used to structure the podcast

1:12.2

back in the very early days when it was just me recording out of the study in my house?

1:16.4

Back then, as long time listers might remember, I would do only written questions in the

1:21.4

main episodes and I would divide them into three categories, work, technology and the

1:27.6

deep life.

1:29.8

Over time, that then became just deep work and deep life and then over time, we got rid

1:33.9

of the categories for questions altogether.

1:36.5

And now, of course, we have this much more, let's say, vibrant structure where there's

1:41.4

written questions and voice questions and segments where I'm talking about different things

1:45.8

and I used the illustrator, we go through articles and there's a lot more that goes on

1:50.7

in today.

1:51.7

But let's go back to the past, questions, all written three categories, deep work, technology

1:59.2

and the deep life.

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