Ep. 227: Visions of the Deep Life?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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

- DEEP DIVE: Should I Manage Time or Stress? [2:50]

- How do I switch from a push to pull model of task management? [27:05]
- Where should I live? [40:13]
- Is “rare and valuable” the same as “impressive”? [49:01]
- CALL: Integrating Deep Work to create a Deep Life [54:43]
- How do I reconcile my lifestyle vision with my husbands very different vision? [58:09]
- How does Cal structure his values document? [1:04:12]

THREE INTERESTING THINGS:

Twitter, Attention, and Democracy [1:14:28]
(nytimes.com/2022/12/11/opinion/what-twitter-can-learn-from-quakers.html)

Research: Walking Helps Thinking [1:22:10]
(apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf )

Novelist Ian Rankin’s Slow Productivity [1:23:47]
(theguardian.com/books/2016/may/07/my-writing-day-ian-rankin)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport and this is DeepQuestions, episode 227.
0:21.7	If you're new, this is the program in which I take questions from my audience and offer
0:27.1	advice about how to live.
0:29.0	The deep life in a world increasingly be set by distraction.
0:35.2	I'm here as always in my DeepWork HQ, joined by my producer, Jesse, I recently received
0:42.9	a text from our superintendent of the building with the news podcast producer probably
0:50.2	least wants to hear.
0:52.6	So she said, we're going to be doing work on the space below us.
0:57.4	It used to be the restaurant republic, which then closed, a new restaurant is coming in.
1:02.6	She said, for the rest of December, and all of January, there will be construction going
1:07.6	on, often loud.
1:10.9	So I just get the geography right for the listeners, that the location where that loud construction
1:16.5	will be is, and I'm using approximate terms, immediately below us.
1:21.2	So this should get interesting.
1:22.9	Yeah.
1:23.9	We'll get a restaurant out of it.
1:25.4	And what if it's a cool one?
1:27.0	I mean, I'm hoping it's a restaurant.
1:28.0	I don't know what your hopes are for it.
1:29.8	But for me, I want it to be a place that it's another option to grab food either there
1:35.9	or to go.
1:36.9	I could just grab a lunch there.
	...

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