Ep. 230: How Well Are You Living?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvoVideo from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmediaDEEP DIVE: How well are you living? [11:14]- How do you track deep life habits? [28:07]- How do I become more social? (Bonus: How does Cal avoid being killed by Jocko?) [34:15]- How do I distill essential ideas from complex topics? [46:13]- How does Cal research his articles? [53:49]- Should I get a Deep Life tattoo? [59:41]THREE INTERESTING THINGS: - Guillermo Del Toro Bought a Second House to Boost his Creativity [1:13:33]kpcc.org/show/the-frame/2016-07-22/bleak-house-a-tour-inside-guillermo-del-toros-creative-man-cave- Kary Mullis’s Nobel-Winning Moment of Insight [1:19:56]nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1993/mullis/lecture/ - Charles Dickens Wrote “A Christmas Carol” on Foot [1:22:38]Thanks to our Sponsors:stamps.com/deepgrammarly.com/deephensonshaving.com/calmybodytutor.comThanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Mark Miles for mastering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm CalNewPort and this is DeepQuestions, episode 230.
0:22.5	I'm here in my deep work HQ.
0:25.8	Join once again by my producer Jesse Jesse, welcome back from vacation.
0:29.3	Thanks.
0:30.3	Good to be back.
0:31.3	I was actually pretty impressed that I remembered how to do most of the stuff that happens on
0:36.4	the computer screen.
0:37.4	It was muscle memory.
0:39.2	I was actually thinking about that.
0:40.7	It's not overly complicated, but there are steps that I would draw.
0:44.5	It's just a lot of little things, yeah, but it's like riding a bike.
0:48.0	So recording on garage band podcasting is like riding a bike.
0:53.8	All right.
0:55.1	News to share, I think I can say officially that as of this morning, I am done with a complete
1:02.3	first draft of my new book, Slow Productivity.
1:07.4	That's pretty awesome.
1:08.4	It's a little bit hazy to really put a line in the sand and say the draft is done because
1:14.6	for example, I have a couple examples I've come across recently that I want to go back
1:20.3	and integrate into prior chapters.
1:22.2	I also want to do a pass through and see if any of the major stories I want to change before
1:26.8	I submit it.
1:27.8	But my definition of being done is like as of right before I came here this morning, every
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