Ep. 69: How Do I Find Joy in Leisure?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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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 - How do I finish my day strong when time blocking? [5:09] - What should I do to succeed as a new professor? [9:48] - How do I protect deep work even as I become more recognized? [14:38] - What are strategies for handling large ambiguous work tasks? [19:37] - How do I stay productive in a one-bedroom apartment? [24:06]TECHNOLOGY QUESTIONS - Can ASMR support deep work? [32:44] - Do audiobooks count as long-form reading? [40:21] - Should families use shared task lists? [40:45] - How how I use YouTube while avoiding entertainment black holes? [46:29]DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS - How does one find joy in deep leisure? [50:00] - It Eisenhower Box useful for constructing a deep life? [58:05] - How do I escape the social media bubble the pandemic trapped me inside? [1:03:44]Thanks to Jay Kerstens for the intro music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm CalNewPort and this is DeepQuestions, episode 69.
0:21.7	Quick announcements.
0:23.9	There is no deep dive in this week's episode, but this is the first week in which I'm going to start
0:32.1	filming select questions, sort of highlighted questions from the episode. So in my video page
0:38.7	goes live, which should be in the next week or two. In addition to seeing video versions of all
0:44.0	of the deep dives I've done so far, you will begin to see weekly uploads of video highlights,
0:49.5	a particular questions I thought were particularly interesting. So I will give more details about
0:55.2	this video page once it's live, but the wheels are in motion there. So I'm excited about that.
1:02.1	Announcement number two, the most important announcement, of course, of all is the fact that my new
1:06.9	book, a world without email reimagining work and an age of communication overload, is coming out
1:14.0	on March 2nd here in the U.S. March 4th in the U.K. territories and later for other countries
1:21.8	as those translations get completed. Later this week I will be announcing the details of my pre-order
1:30.3	promotion, but I will give you a sneak preview right now since you are loyal listeners of this
1:35.1	podcast. I have created an online course called the email academy, just for people who pre-order this
1:42.2	book. If you pre-order you will get access to that course. We've also set it up so that if you
1:46.9	pre-order the book, once you enter your information, you will immediately get a long excerpt that
1:52.5	lays out a lot of the big ideas of the book and explains what the book talks about so that you can
1:57.5	immediately dive into some of the concepts. The form in which you can enter this information,
2:02.4	the details of this course, the excerpt, etc. That all is going online later this week. I will
2:07.1	announce it on my blog and email newsletter at kelnewport.com. I will announce all the details on
2:12.2	the next episode of this podcast as well, but I'm telling you, if you like this podcast, you were
2:16.9	going to love this book. It's my magnum opus on working in a meaningful, satisfying way in a
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