How to become an elite cognitive performer (Cal Newport Interview)
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.8 • 755 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Cal Newport is a best selling author, a tenured professor at Georgetown University, and has accomplished more in his 35 years of living than most have the courage to make their goal. In this interview, we dive into the mechanics, the mindset, and the strategy behind eliminating distractions and becoming a peak performer. He breaks down specifically how he approaches planning, why he doesn't have social media accounts, and why the advice to "follow your passion" is horrible advice and what you should do instead.
Time Stamps:
(1:22) Welcome back to the Sports Motivation Podcast
(2:33) Welcome, Cal!
(3:16) Ability to say no greatly attributed to Cal’s early success
(5:55) Cal’s cognitive fitness
(6:38) Extreme actions get extreme results
(7:34) Cal’s temptation with social media
(9:51) Stoicism 101 and losing your phone
(11:44) Cal’s definition of passion
(14:58) Mastery becomes a great source of passion
(17:14) What it means to be a craftsman
(19:18) Stretch and destroy
(21:20) Cal’s explanation of Deep Work
(24:16) Can you hit a wall with Deep Work?
(28:09) The process of finding the goals
(30:56) Lag versus Lead measures
(35:00) Why most college students aren’t killing it
(39:20) Cal’s flow state
(42:07) Cal’s type’s of goals
(45:01) Where you can find Cal- www.calnewport.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you try to get right, then you listen to my dad. |
| 0:03.0 | He's a beast. |
| 0:06.0 | And if you don't want to listen to him, okay, okay, you don't want to get successful. |
| 0:11.0 | If you ain't trying to dominate, man, they go listen to something else. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome, athletes, top performers, and all those looking to gain that killer instinct, that edge you need |
| 0:22.4 | to dominate in any environment. This is the Sports Motivation podcast, and I'm your host, |
| 0:28.1 | Nees Showbo. I play ball and succeeded at the highest levels, and I'm now committed to showing |
| 0:34.3 | you how you can accomplish the ambitious goals and visions that you have. |
| 0:39.3 | This podcast is designed to teach you a high-level strategy, not just fluff and hype. |
| 0:44.7 | This will cut to the core if you let it. And by taking action on the practical and next-level |
| 0:50.1 | advice I share, you will see results. Expect that. |
| 0:55.5 | Expect to be more confident. |
| 0:57.2 | Expect to be more focused. |
| 0:59.1 | Expect to be more decisive. |
| 1:01.1 | And expect to be more fearless. |
| 1:04.9 | Expect to become the leader your vision needs you to become. |
| 1:06.3 | So listen up. |
| 1:07.1 | Take notes. |
| 1:08.7 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:28.7 | Welcome to the Sports Motivation Podcast. It is your host, Niyushobo, and I am super excited for today's guest because I can very vividly remember when one of my best friends recommended his book to me. |
| 1:34.0 | And I read it and I felt a lot of anxiety. And there's not a ton of books that do that. And the |
| 1:39.1 | reason why was because it challenged me a ton. And of course, a lot of changes were soon to follow after reading |
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