Ep. 335: On Morning Routines

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

One of the most popular and most derided topics in online productivity spaces are so-called morning routines. In this episode, Cal wades into this content, identifying three major categories of these routines. For each, he explores what’s good and what’s bad. In the end, he uses these lessons to update his own daily routines in some highly specific ways. He then answers reader questions and ends with a “tech corner” segment that builds on Cal’s latest essay for The New Yorker. 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: On Morning Routines [4:04] - How should I choose what podcasts to listen to? [41:49] - How does Cal track daily steps? [52:57] - Can I switch my office hours around? [57:23] - How long should I remain at a large marketing firm? [1:02:37] - How can I reject meetings? [1:10:02] - CALL: How to obsess over quality while researching [1:13:22] CASE STUDY: A career transition to become a pastor [1:18:57] TECH CORNER: YouTube and the Creative Middle Class [1:28:18] 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? x.com/jockowillink tiktok.com/@spartan/video/7259530421099056427 nbcnews.com/better/lifestyle/i-tried-miracle-morning-routine-month-here-s-what-happened-ncna981786 youtube.com/watch?v=roK4g1e28mM newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/a-lesson-in-creativity-and-capitalism-from-two-zany-youtubers Thanks to our Sponsors: This show is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/deepquestions cozyearth.com/deep (Use code: DEEP) mybodytutor.com byloftie.com (Use code: DEEP20) 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
0:17.1	in a distracted world.
0:23.7	So I'm here in my Deep Work H.Q.
0:26.0	joined, as always by my producer, Jesse.
0:28.9	Jesse, I was just down at People's Book, our bookstore here in the
0:32.2	Going Park, signing a bunch more books.
0:34.6	So I think the listeners have heeded my call to consider an autographed version of
0:39.6	slow productivity as a what I'm calling a New Year's gift, a gift to yourself or someone else
0:44.7	you know who's looking to improve parts of their work life in the new year. So I'm always happy
0:50.4	to go down there and sign more books. So if you, if you all keep ordering at the
0:54.6	people's book.com. Or I think it's people's book Tacoma.com. Whatever. People's book in Tacoma.
1:00.6	Go to their website. You can order the sign copies. I'll keep signing them. They'll keep sending them out.
1:04.4	That's a people's book to coma. People's book Tacoma.com. Did you buy any books when you were down there?
1:12.4	I don't know if I bought last time I was down. I don't know if I did.
1:13.2	I just a surgical strike came in, signed some books.
1:16.5	Always happy to do it.
1:18.1	A shout out to make actually from from friends of the show, Jesse.
1:21.2	You know the the my body tutor guys.
1:24.5	Yeah.
1:25.0	You know, and I've known Adam for a long time.
1:26.6	He used to give fitness advice on the study hacks blog back in the old days.
1:31.0	You know, Adam, you know, he wrote me, I don't know, it's like a year ago now.
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