Ep. 314: Elements of the Deep Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this classic episode Cal talks about the elements of the Deep Life. He then answers a variety of questions about work, family, and phone distractions.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: The Elements of the Deep Life [2:31] - How should I get started in a new remote work job? [17:39] - How I time block a purely reactive job? [22:49] - Should I bother capturing tasks that are fast to complete? [26:20] - How do I tame multiple concurrent projects? [29:53] - How do I schedule optional deep work in an exhausting job? [32:51] - How much time is left for family after goals and deep work? [39:56] - Is there such a thing as deep fun? [42:44] - I am addicted to my phone. What do I do? [44:48] - How do I make a big life decision when I have lots of options? [50:35] 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? Thanks to our Sponsors: cozyearth.com/cal mintmobile.com/deep policygenius.com/deepquestions blinkist.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 Kell Newport and this is Deep Question. The show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world.
0:20.0	So I'm here in my deep work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse, who I'll have to say
0:31.7	Jesse and I right now are a little bit freaked out just you'll attest this is true
0:36.7	Both of our microphones just fell off of our mic stands
0:41.0	I know they did. Essentially simultaneously. I don't want to say
0:46.0	sabotage but all I got to say is Lexo Friedman I'm looking at you.
0:53.0	I figure he has his guys over here sabotaging us.
0:55.0	No, I don't know.
0:56.0	I don't know. I don't know.
0:57.0	What's the chances they both fell off at the same time?
0:58.0	We're back in action, though.
0:59.0	Look, I'm excited about today's episode
1:01.0	because we are trying something a little bit different
1:03.3	that I think you're going to like. So the week this episode is airing, I'm away on
1:07.3	vacation, Jesse's away on vacation, and so what we thought we would do was go back
1:12.3	into the archives and find a classic episode, one of
1:15.5	our more popular episodes from the early days of this show. Now some of you have been long
1:19.8	time listeners and maybe heard this years ago, but most of you are new and would never
1:23.7	have heard this before and it seems like a waste that we have some of these gems
1:27.4	in our archive that most of our listeners have never heard. So we went back and
1:31.6	pulled out to play for you today in its entirety episode 131
1:38.1	titled Elements of the Deep Life. This aired back in September of 2021. This was right around the one year anniversary of this show starting. We were still sort of dealing with a lot of different sort of pandemic things going on and interestingly it's where you
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