Ep. 313: Structured Journaling

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summer is the perfect time to ready yourself for significant changes in your life. A chance to seek more depth in a distracted world. But for many, the goal for these changes is unclear. They know they want something deeper, but they don’t know what exactly that is. In this episode, Cal describes a method called structured journaling that can help you clarify your vision for what you seek. He then answers readers’ questions and ends with a final segment in which reacts to a provocative claim by Jon M. Chu, the director of the new WICKED film adaptation.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: Structured journaling [6:10]- What does Cal think of goal planning systems? [30:32]- How can college students cultivate a deep life? [32:44]- Can I live a deep life as a lawyer? [40:19]- How does Cal keep track of the books he wants to read? [46:19]- I finish all my work in a single day. Is this unethical? [49:15]- How do I cultivate a deep life in a busy career? [53:11]- CALL: Should I leave a perfect job? [56:54]CASE STUDY: Career capital theory in action [1:02:38]FINAL SEGMENT: Jon M. Chu on Creativity and Hard Work [1:10:05]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? nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02540-0 nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02381-x Thanks to our Sponsors: grammarly.com/podcast mybodytutor.com rhone.com/cal shopify.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.
0:29.4	So I'm here in my deep work, HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse. Jesse, there's a couple slow productivity announcements like news
0:35.4	announcements I figured it'd be worthwhile to share what do we got well okay so
0:40.1	number one the the issue of nature, which is, you know, the famous science journal that
0:46.7	comes out the day we're recording this, features a really nice profile of yours truly talking
0:52.2	about slow productivity, the the book and how it
0:54.8	applies to scientists. So you know all all young professors in the sciences
1:00.2	dream of one day being published in nature.
1:03.0	Typically they're thinking about their groundbreaking research,
1:06.0	making it to the cover of the magazine.
1:07.5	I guess I slipped in the back door, but I can now say I made it in the nature.
1:11.0	Here's the funny thing, though.
1:12.0	I think there was some lack of
1:15.0	communication between different departments there, right? So this article came
1:19.6	out online a couple days ago and it's in the print version of nature. The week before they
1:24.7	published an editorial by someone talking about slow productivity in my book and
1:28.3	why it was useful for scientists. Sort of coincidentally, so I'm featured in nature twice
1:34.2	basically in like the same the same period I don't know if the editorial is in the
1:38.1	print version or not but it's all Cal Newport all the time for this very brief window of nature the journal nature this week
1:44.7	Well include the no the links in the show notes. Yeah. Yeah, so it's cool. So I'm getting some
1:49.0	Getting some nature love and it was easier than having to make it breakthrough research
1:54.0	contribution. That's pretty cool. The other thing we mentioned this briefly
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