Ep. 204: Deep Life Principles

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Cal Reacts: A slow productivity case study [5:19]

- What do you think about planning two weeks out instead of one? [25:52]
- How can I brainwash my little brother to make him not follow his passion? [32:43]
- Improving at deliberate practice with a slow feedback loop [42:33]
- How can I stop overthinking? [49:53]

The Six Books Cal Read in June 2022 [54:48]

- Slow productivity and billable hours [1:20:24]
- What are the key principles of living the deep life? [1:24:21]

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport, and this is DeepWrested, episode 204.
0:22.5	I'm here in my DeepWark HQ, joined by my producer, Jesse, in between the last episode
0:29.4	we recorded, and this one, I drove my family down to Knoxville, Tennessee, for a family
0:36.3	reunion.
0:37.3	I will tell you, if you look up DeepWark in the dictionary, and you know, they have
0:42.8	Antonim's, like, okay, what is the exact opposite of this word?
0:46.8	Next to that, it says, driving eight hours with three kids under the age of 10.
0:52.9	That is the opposite of DeepWark.
0:54.3	That is the state that is the opposite of DeepWark.
0:56.9	How is the ride, how many stops?
0:59.2	Quite a few, but there's one we made, it reminded me a little bit of the show, so there's
1:03.2	a stop we made, we're doing some tourist trap type stuff, it was fun.
1:09.2	So we stopped in a natural bridge, Virginia, which is where natural bridge is, natural bridge
1:14.6	is a geological formation, it's like a giant stone bridge.
1:19.5	It's actually a cave that collapsed, but George Washington went by there, supposedly when
1:24.7	he was surveying Virginia, Thomas Jefferson owned that land for a while, built a cabin
1:29.3	there, maybe a DeepWark cabin.
1:32.4	Next to this state park, historical, whatever is nonsense, all sorts of nonsense, because
1:38.9	it's a tourist stop.
1:39.9	So we went to this one place called Dinosaur Kingdom II, and it's actually kind of interesting,
1:46.9	right?
1:48.7	A tourist attraction created by Mark Klein, who is an expert, maybe the world's expert in
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