Ep. 208: To-Do Lists Are Inhumane
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Cal Newport
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm CalNewPort and this is DeepQuestGets, episode 208. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm here in my DeepQuestGets queue, joined once again by Jesse after a little while, Jesse. |
| 0:27.7 | I've done some episodes alone, I've done some episodes with a blanket over my head, up in Vermont. |
| 0:35.4 | So it's nice to have the old gang, the old format, everything back together. We can do this old |
| 0:41.0 | fashion. I got an episode plan that has all the things we like. We got written questions. We got |
| 0:47.8 | calls. We have the books I read. We have a habit tune up. We have our tablet that we're going to use. |
| 0:53.4 | We're going back to all of the hits because it was an interesting July. A lot of vacations are over, |
| 0:59.8 | so it's like schools back. I'm excited about the books. Yeah, I always like that segment. Yeah, |
| 1:05.8 | one of them came from you. So you'll see. You'll see when we get there. I'll tell you, here's |
| 1:09.9 | something that was interesting. Speaking of us being a part. The other day I did NPR from the HQ |
| 1:16.6 | and I used your microphone because for whatever mysterious audio, Gremlin reasons, your microphone |
| 1:22.7 | generates less buzz or hiss or whatever it is. And it's different. It threw me your seats in a |
| 1:30.8 | little different position. The camera has a different eye line than mine. I mean, it felt like when |
| 1:35.9 | you switch from right to left handed and hitting a baseball or something, I got to say, |
| 1:40.3 | like going to England driving the other side. I was driving on the other side of the road, |
| 1:43.8 | except for doing an NPR interview, but it definitely has like, this is not right. I don't |
| 1:48.1 | I don't feel right over here. The wall is too close behind me. The mic, my hand's over here. It's |
| 1:53.5 | it's, man, threw me off, but persevered. Persevered nonetheless. |
| 1:59.3 | All right. Well, we got a good show. As I mentioned, questions, calls, etc. |
| 2:04.2 | Well, let's start. Get back to basics a little bit. Do a habit. Tune up. |
| 2:09.8 | So when this is where I go and I take a particular strategy or tactic relevant to living a |
| 2:15.4 | deeper, more productive life and we get into the weeds, this one is based off of my recent |
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