I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about living and working deeply

in a distracted world.

Hey, it's Cal here.

We're trying something different this week.

Both Justin and I are on vacation at the same time.

So we thought we would go back in our archives and find a classic episode that we both really enjoyed.

So the episode we chose, which came out almost two years ago

exactly to this day. It was August of 2023. This episode has been one of our most popular.

When we put this on YouTube, it generated something like 1.5 million views and counting.

So we figured, hey, this would be a fun episode to revisit.

I think you're going to like it. What you're going to hear in this episode is some of the

early forms of the ideas I was formulating around the deep life. I had a fun time coming back to

this recently because these ideas have evolved quite a bit in the current book I'm writing on the Deep Life. So it's interesting to go

back and hear again how these ideas started. But something about these notions, the strategy

described here, seemed to hit a chord. So I think you'll like it. We'll be back next week with

another new episode, but this one is worth another listen. So enjoy this classic episode of the Deep Questions podcast.

So today's deep question, how can I reinvent my life in four months?

Now that four months number is not arbitrary.

If it is the beginning of September now, where does four months put us?

September, October, November, December.

That means this overhaul process we're going to talk about will finish right around New Year's.

So right around the time all of your friends are buying copies of James Clear's book and getting gym memberships,

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