Ep. 202: TikTok Dismisses Facebook

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 82 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/podcastVideo from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmediaCal Reacts to the News: TikTok Dismisses Facebook [10:40]- Should I get a PhD in my 50’s? [32:29]- Do I need two shutdowns if I work on my side hustle in the evening? [40:21]- Good life vs. Deep life [44:39]Habit Tune-up: Process-Centric Email [49:49]- How can I succeed in an academic profession after a lackluster start? [1:07:16]- Helping young men live deeply [1:15:07]Thanks to our Sponsors:Blinkist.com/deepEightsleep.com/deepMybodytutor.comWren.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 E-QuestGets, episode 202.
0:22.4	I'm here in my deep work, HQ, joined by my producer, Jesse.
0:28.6	Before I forget, I have an unsolicited plug.
0:32.9	I want to do a friend of mine and a friend of the show, Steve Magnus, has a new book out.
0:41.6	The name might sound familiar.
0:42.7	He was on the show in an episode we did a while ago, him and Brad Stolberg, they do a podcast
0:49.2	together called the Growth Equation.
0:52.5	They came on my show and we talked about Matt Crawford's book.
0:55.9	If that name sounds familiar, that's probably where you've heard it from.
0:58.8	He has a new book out with a title that I think everyone will quickly see why I like this
1:03.8	book.
1:04.8	It's a very Cal Newport approved title.
1:06.9	It is called Do Hard Things, a sort of a cool title.
1:12.3	Anyways, good book, Steve is a world-class runner and a running coach and so he brings
1:18.9	an expertise from actually helping people do demonstrably hard things to this question
1:25.0	of how do you actually tackle big challenges and he pushes back on a lot of the sort of
1:29.8	conventional wisdom of just be tough and show no weakness and just get after it.
1:35.1	He has a much more sort of nuanced, sophisticated view of how people get through hard things
1:39.4	and accomplish hard things, so check out Steve's newest book, have you worked out with him
1:45.2	before?
1:46.2	No.
1:47.2	So I'm going to write a couple of writers, but I'm going to write his group with Steve
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