Ep. 228: A World Without Busyness

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

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

DEEP DIVE: A World Without Busyness? [4:51]

- In an era of Quiet Quitting is it easier to become a star? [22:09]
- How do I resist my job’s demand for out-of-hours work? [29:52]
- Should new writers use social media to get feedback? [35:31]
- Should I use social media to promote my filmmaking website? [46:11]
- Am I too busy find new ideas? [53:54]

THREE INTERESTING THINGS:

- On Teenage Luddites [1:03:07]
calnewport.com/blog/2022/12/16/on-teenage-luddites/

- Deep Work in Stocism [1:07:48]

- Finding the Deep Life in the Mountains [1:09:09]
outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/moving-to-a-ski-town-steamboat-springs-colorado-no-regrets/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the show where I answer questions from my audience and give advice about the
0:29.6	challenge of cultivating a deep life in a world increasingly be set by distractions. Now I'm here as
0:38.4	always in my deep work HQ. I'm joined by my producer Jesse. Jesse, I just did the math. This episode's
0:46.2	coming out what the day after Christmas. Yeah. It's our holiday episode. Holiday episode. We should have
0:52.2	brought in Christmas lights. I had that idea by the way. I was going to decorate the HQ and then I did
0:58.2	it. What was my idea? I was going to bring in some lights and do whatever. And then life happened.
1:04.6	The last time we had props, we brought the skeleton. Yeah. So Halloween got a skeleton. We should
1:10.5	have done this in Santa hats. I apologize. This is me dropping the ball. I honestly didn't really,
1:14.8	I've lost track of time. We're sort of just barreling through December. My family is a lot going on.
1:20.2	I'm dealing with each thing as we get there. So it didn't really occur to me. We're recording this
1:24.0	a week in advance more or less that like, oh, this is actually the holiday episode. You know,
1:28.6	I did a survey. You might be surprised by the answer. I surveyed our listeners to find out
1:33.0	what holidays do they celebrate during this period? Number one response. Best of us. Really? No.
1:46.0	I was one of the air grievances later in the episode. I did not interview them on that. All right,
1:52.7	we've got a good simple show today in honor of the holidays. One deep dive, which you will see
1:59.4	is tangentially connected to the current season. Five questions. Carefully selected a mix of
2:08.0	questions about the struggle to find more depth in your work and questions about finding more
2:12.3	depth in your life outside of work. We got a good mix followed by our favorite final segment.
2:17.3	Three interesting things. I have three interesting things sent to me from around the internet
2:22.9	in recent weeks all about the struggle to live deeply. All right, that is the show. I want to
2:29.9	mention a brief experiment going on over at the YouTube channel. YouTube.com slash Cal Newport
2:37.8	Media. In addition to the videos of this podcast, I launched an experimental video with friend of
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