Ep. 59: Why Be Productive?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). For instructions on submitting your own questions, go to calnewport.com/podcast.WORK QUESTIONS- Preparing for deep work. [6:41]- Keeping on top of everything when you have many roles. [12:32]- Is it possible to time block without a clock? [18:25]- Overcoming graduate student procrastination. [24:18]- Predictable schedules with unpredictable children at home. [29:36]TECHNOLOGY QUESTIONS- Scheduling asynchronous classes. [34:49]- Plain text productivity using Markdown. [36:57]- Long Term storage of promising ideas. [49:59]- Overcoming fear of what other people will think. [58:49]DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS- Sports as a distraction. [1:02:55]- Leisure that’s very similar to your work. [1:06:19]- Why be productive? [1:09:55]Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport and this is deep questions.
0:19.0	We have a good show today.
0:20.0	I'm looking at my script here and I see we have questions about among other
0:25.8	things setting up for a deep work session time blocking without using a clock.
0:33.0	That is a topic that I'm probably not going to be too positive about when it comes up.
0:38.0	We also will talk about a productivity tool called Markdown
0:42.0	that all of the cool guy geeks have been talking about recently.
0:46.2	We'll get into whether having kids at home means you cannot have a consistent work
0:51.0	schedule. We'll also do some deep questions on productivity and the meaning of life.
0:56.0	So this should be a good one.
0:58.0	Now if you want to find out how to submit your own questions for the show, to Cal Newport.com
1:03.8	slash podcast.
1:06.5	I finally realized after doing 59 episodes of this show
1:10.6	that it would probably be easier if I just consolidated the instructions
1:14.4	about how to submit written and voice questions at one location.
1:19.7	That location is the main website for the podcast, Cal Newport.com
1:23.0	to figure out how you can submit your own questions.
1:28.0	Let's do some quick announcements. This is the first episode of what I'm calling season two of this
1:36.1	podcast. No dramatic changes are happening today. I actually already
1:42.1	started making changes to
1:44.1	tighten up and improve the podcast format earlier in December and I will continue to
1:48.5	make those changes as the winter unfolds. So it's not that there's a drastic change now that we've gone from season one
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