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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 220: The Two Types of Ambition

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo

DEEP DIVE: The Two Types of Ambition [4:36]

- LIVE CALL: Escaping the “Second Control Tap” [28:10]
- Can journaling make me a better writer? [53:26]
- What’s an example of a keystone habit for building community? [56:03]
- Can Cal give an example of a quarterly plan? [1:00:00]
- How does Cal choose what books to read? [1:06:16]

- What’s is Cal’s philosophy on caffeine? [1:15:12]
- How can a teenager prepare to live deeply? [1:20:59]

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Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Mark Miles for mastering.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So if you're new to the program, it is where I answer questions from my audience about

0:27.1

the

1:52.3

question.

2:02.3

This felt like a good idea when I was walking out of my house as I got to the HQ, I began

2:09.6

to have doubts and I'll tell you why right next to our office in the HQ is a legitimate

2:16.2

documentary video production company and we're talking about a company that does serious

2:22.6

issue-based documentaries.

2:24.5

Now they know who I am, they know my books, but I think they're confused why I have

2:29.1

an office and in their minds it's probably some sort of weird grown man's clubhouse and

2:34.9

I just was having this thought as I was walking down the street carrying a fluorescent skeleton

2:42.0

that if they see me right now, I'm not going to be disabusing them of their impression of

2:48.1

what's going on in here.

2:49.6

So fortunately I did avoid them, avoided our super, did run into my neighbor carrying the

2:54.6

skeleton, but yeah, it could be worse.

2:57.4

For those not watching, it's good to know that these skeleton is probably five feet tall.

3:02.0

Yeah, we think it's seriously, our Halloween decorations have a lot of skeletons in them.

3:11.3

So we've got a good show, so there's two blocks of questions coming up early in the first

3:15.7

block.

3:16.7

We have our very first live caller.

3:19.7

Jesse had promised us by the end of October, this episode has been recorded on the last

3:23.7

day of October, so that's exciting, so we'll actually have me talking live with a caller

3:28.1

going back and forth about their issue.

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