Ep. 309: Deep Habits

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On this show, we often talk about major overhauls to your work and life. In this episode, we go the other way and focus on the small habits that can make a big difference. In more detail, Cal describes eight surprisingly small strategies – four focused on work and four focused on life outside of work – for finding more depth in a distracted world. He then answers listener questions and reacts to a recent article about pushback to calls to limiting social media for kids.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 Habits [2:46]- Can I keep my weekly plan in my workingmemory.txt file? [31:13]- Do you experience any pleasure during deep work? [33:39]- How many deep work sessions should I do each working week? [38:23]- How can I prioritize my goals in my personal life? [40:58]- Does the suggestion to “limit daily goals” conflict with time blocking? [44:09] CASE STUDY: Building my career around a desired lifestyle [45:53]CAL REACTS: Countering Pushback to Limiting Social Media for Kids [54:26] Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at calnewport.com/slow Get a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/ Cal’s monthly book directory: bramses.notion.site/059db2641def4a88988b4d2cee4657ba? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/27/social-media-warning-label-surgeon-general-counterarguments/ english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2024-07-06/cal-newport-the-man-who-never-procrastinates.html Thanks to our Sponsors: grammarly.com/podcast cozyearth.com/cal mybodytutor.com drinklmnt.com/deep Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, Kieron Rees for the slow productivity 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 Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world.
0:22.0	As was the case last week I am still not in my deep work HQ, but in instead
0:30.3	Broadcasting from an undisclosed location up in New England where I've come to
0:35.2	Recharge after my slow productivity book tour and because I'm crazy this way
0:40.4	Begin some work on my next book project. Now there's no Jesse today Jesse is on
0:47.2	vacation so it's just going to be me and you dear listener but I do want to say
0:51.6	that Jesse Skeleton made his first appearance in the
0:57.6	international media. I was profiled recently for the Spanish newspaper El Paiz and in the profile there's a bunch of photos and one of the photos was snapped of Jesse Skeleton at the Deep Work HQ. We'll put a link to that English translation of that
1:14.5	interview at that profile in the show notes. If you want to see Jesse
1:18.0	Skeleton in all of his glory, it's all of course gone to his head. I can't talk to Jesse's skeleton
1:24.9	directly anymore. He insists that I go through his publicity agent as well as
1:30.4	his screen agent.
1:33.0	It is very difficult to talk to you now.
1:35.0	I think it's gone to his head.
1:36.0	But I guess good for him for getting the exposure he so well deserves.
1:38.0	All right, speaking of summer, last week I also mentioned that during the summer,
1:42.0	traffic on this
1:43.8	podcast is well it's basically every podcast goes down as people are out of
1:47.8	their normal routines my new plan is to counter the summer drop of
1:52.2	traffic by making the summer the time where I actually
1:54.4	get around to doing what I probably should do more often which is asking for your help
1:58.0	and spreading the word. So if you enjoy what we've been up to here please consider
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