Ep. 269: Don’t Get Started

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

After an episode in which Cal reviewed ancient wisdom on cultivating a deeper life, he turns his attention back to more recent advice. Focusing on three of the more unconventional but unambiguously effective ideas that he has proposed in his twenty years of professional writing on these topics. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia Deep Dive: Getting started is overrated [6:29] - How can I become more confident in social settings? [36:15] - Is it ok to be an ordinary person? [40:52] - Is it important to have friends? [46:41] - I took a pay cut to become a teacher again. How can I better organize my life to prioritize craft? [49:36] - Is it ok to use YouTube to discover new ideas? [57:28] Reader’s React: Is Productivity Natural? [1:05:04] Links: calnewport.com/dangerous-ideas-getting-started-is-overrated/ calnewport.com/treat-your-mind-as-you-would-a-private-garden/ calnewport.com/should-you-work-like-maya-angelou-or-eric-schmidt/ calnewport.com/on-tire-pressure-and-productivity/ Thanks to our Sponsors: moshlife.com/deep zocdoc.com/deep hensonshaving.com/cal mybodytutor.com Thanks 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 Count Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about living and working deeply in
0:17.9	a distracted world.
0:20.2	So I'm here in my Deep Work HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse.
0:29.2	And Jesse, I'm excited about the show today.
0:32.2	We've got a deep dive in which I am going to reach back into the archive of Olden days
0:39.6	Count Newport.
0:40.6	That's going to be interesting.
0:42.6	Got good collection of questions to follow and then I'm trying something new for the final
0:46.3	segment.
0:47.3	In which I read reader's reactions to some of my recent work, a little bit of a back
0:54.9	and forth dialogue going on.
0:56.6	Now, if you're listening and you want to see some of the websites and articles I'm referencing
1:00.0	today, go to the deeplife.com slash listen and find episode 269, the videos reach episode
1:07.5	or at the bottom of the episode page.
1:12.2	Before we get into all that, however, I was hoping and Jesse, you'll maybe give me permission
1:16.1	here.
1:17.1	Permission granted the geek out a little bit on a productivity strategy.
1:21.4	Yeah.
1:22.4	That's what I wanted.
1:23.4	We're going to just briefly, but I want to geek out on something.
1:26.1	So a couple episodes ago, this was 267.
1:29.9	I had a deep dive about why context shifting throughout your work days, making you tired
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