Ep. 44: Habit Tune-Up: Prioritizing Tasks, Balancing My Many Endeavors, and Resisting Radicalization

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this mini-episode, I answer audio questions from listeners asking for advice about how best to tune-up their productivity and work habits in a moment of increased distraction and disruption.You can submit your own audio questions at speakpipe.com/calnewport.Here are the topics we cover: * Prioritizing tasks when you have too much to do [9:28]* Making the most of the weekend [18:53]* Balancing my academic and writing obligations [26:42]* Improving reading habits [35:25]* Resisting radicalization (sermon alert) [41:07]Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:17.0	I find that by Friday I'm very cognitively drained and on Saturday and Sunday I kind of want to shut my mind down and I end up kind of winging the weekend and not really being goal-oriented when it comes to socializing. I'm Cal Newport and this is a deep questions habit tune up mini episode.
0:27.0	The format for this episode is that I take live questions from my
0:34.3	listeners about how to tune up their productivity habits in this time where
0:39.9	our professional lives are increasingly disrupted.
0:45.2	The big news for me this week is the release of my time block planner. It is now available for purchase at the normal places that you buy books online, both here in the US and in the UK. I'm excited. Later this week I am doing an event called the Time Block Academy
1:10.1	that was open to people who pre-ordered the planner, and we have close to 2,000 people signed up to come to this virtual event where I am going to answer a question after question about deep-in weeds productivity geekery involving the planner.
1:25.8	Anyways I'm excited about it. If you want to find out more I put together a website, a
1:30.4	standalone website timeblock planner.com that introduces the idea of time blocking
1:37.9	why it's different than standard methods and it has a really nice video I had
1:42.2	produced where I explain exactly how the planner works and show myself
1:45.8	using it. Now this is in part to help explain the system to those of you who maybe listen to my podcast and know about it but want to learn more but
1:55.2	one of the real reasons I put together that website is to make it easy for you to explain
1:59.0	what time blocking is to other people. We live in a sort of weird deep work, deep question, study hacks,
2:07.4	Cal Newport universe here where there's a lot of productivity geekery that we all sort of understand we all speak the same language
2:15.8	most people don't and so time block planner.com is like the cliffnotes. If you want to
2:22.3	quickly explain to someone oh here's what this new blue
2:26.9	planner with the orange ribbon that I'm always right in. Here is what it is and how it works and
2:31.2	why I use it. It is an easy way to convey that information.
2:34.6	So I hope you enjoy it.
2:35.9	I hope all of you who have received your planners this week
2:39.6	are enjoying time blocking with it. I also wanted to briefly say thanks to everyone who has
2:46.1	been continuing to write reviews for this podcast or rate it. I really appreciate it. I think it's really helping this audience grow.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cal Newport, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Cal Newport and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.