Hey Dan here, before we start the show I want to tell you about a live recording of this

podcast that we're doing in New York City on March 28th. I will be interviewing two frequent

flyers from this show, the legendary meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein

who will be just coming off a three-month solo silent meditation retreat and

Dr Mark Epstein a Buddhist therapist and best-selling author. The event will actually be a

celebration of the 10th anniversary of my first book, 10% happier, and a percentage of

the proceeds will go to the New York Insight Meditation Center. Come early if you want for a VIP guided meditation

and Q&A with me.

Thanks to our friends over at audible

for sponsoring this show and the event.

Tickets on sale right now at symphony space.org.

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing how we doing how we doing how often does this happen to you

you run into somebody you haven't seen in a minute you ask them how they're doing and they issue a deep sigh and say busy. It's almost

like a humble brag or a badge of honor and I say this without any judgment because I do this but what if there was a way to be

productive without running yourself ragged to achieve without burnout that's what my guest today is promising.

Cal Newport is a professor of computer science at Georgetown and a best-selling

author of multiple books including digital minimalism and a world without email, which he has come on

this show to discuss in the past.

His latest book, and the reason for his return, is called slow productivity.

In this conversation, we talk about how we got into this mess,

a mess that he calls overload culture,

the difference between pseudo-productivity and slow-productivity and the three tenets of slow productivity,

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