Ep. 54: Habit Tune-Up: Capture Tools, Getting Started, and Building Skills at Home

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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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: - Clarifying capturing and configuring. [2:09] - Time blocking for teachers. [9:24] - Starting from scratch on a hard professional challenge. [15:20] - Building professional skills as a stay-at-home parent. [25:35] - Bottom up versus top down when reorganizing your life. [32:04]Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.0	can come to the clear realization that Frosted is the best flavor. I'm Cal Newport and this is a deep questions, habit tune-up mini episode.
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1:35.0	I answer voice questions on the nitty gritty details of how to tune up your productivity habits.
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