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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 58: Habit Tune-Up: Clarifying Task Organization, Graduate Student Advice, and My Research Workflow

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 39 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 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:- Struggling with organizing tasks. [7:41]- Advice for becoming a fantastic graduate student. [14:18]- My research workflow. [19:43]- Book writing basics. [31:14]Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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I thought today I'd make that a little bit more concrete.

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Let's actually go over to blinkus.com

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let's see what's popular right now in

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society and culture category and I'm looking at their most popular book summaries at the moment and I'm impressed look at this so you could in 45 minutes

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you could learn about Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now, followed by Robin DeAngelos White Fragility,

0:46.4

followed by Gerin-Linaire's 10 arguments for deleting your social media accounts.

0:51.4

Imagine that trio of different books and different takes and different perspectives on our country.

0:55.7

In just 45 minutes you could be up the speed on the main ideas for just those three.

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That's blinkist spelled BL in k, I. I-B-L-K-I-S-T-B-N-K-E-T-E-E-T-E-E-E-T-E-E-E-T-E-E-E-T-E-E-N-T-E-E-T-E-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-E-T-E-T-O-T-O-K-O-O-O-K-K-K-T-O-O-O- dot com slash deep. I'm Cal Newport and this is a deep questions habit tune up mini episode.

2:00.0

The format of these mini episodes is straightforward. I answer voice questions from

2:08.2

listeners about how to tune up their productivity habits.

2:14.0

Two quick announcements.

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