I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, episode 63.

I don't have any quick announcements for today. There is no deep dive either this week

though I have another one I'm working on so we will be back to the deep dive segment soon.

We've got a good collection of questions here, covering our normal categories of work technology and the deep life.

Among other things, we have questions coming up about self-learning, teaching kids how to do deep work,

the value of digital shabats, and staying motivated even after you have achieved what you set out to achieve.

So this should be a great show.

As always, if you want to learn how to submit your own questions,

go to CalNewport.com

slash Podcast.

All right, so I'm excited to get started, but first I want to mention a brand new sponsor of the Deep Questions Podcast and that is Monk Pack.

People who know me know that I am bad about eating.

It's one of the side effects of being someone who is really in the deep work is that I often forget to eat

I'll plow right through meals and then I will get low blood sugar I will get cranky

My wife will say you have to eat, the quality of my work will

degrade, and so my strategy is to just have snacks around in the house that are healthy,

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Have something healthy I can grab without thinking about it. Monk Pack keto-granola bars is a

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Now they're designed originally for people who were doing the keto diet or following a keto lifestyle.

I don't follow a keto diet, but I am keto adjacent in the sense that I just try in general to

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