SLOW PRODUCTIVITY: Can We Get More Done by Doing Less?

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

What if doing less is the secret to achieving more? That's the counterintuitive argument at the heart of productivity guru Cal Newport's new book, "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout." Cal says that if we can learn to do fewer things, work at a natural pace, and obsess over quality, we can free ourselves from the clutches of pointless busyness and find more meaningful ways to work ... and live. *Live Event Alert* We are hosting a live taping of this show in New York City on Monday, April 22. Rufus will be sitting down with Scott Galloway — NYU business professor, podcast provocateur, and author of "The Algebra of Wealth" — to discuss ways you can optimize your life for wealth and success. Listeners of this show get 50% off entry with the code PODCAST. Buy your tickets today at nextbigideaclub.com/events *Help Us Pick Our Next Guest* We recently compiled a list of must-read new books coming out in June. Take a look here and let us know which titles you think we should feature on the show.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, quick note before we get started.
0:02.6	We're doing a live taping of this show in New York City,
0:06.3	this coming Monday, April 22nd,
0:08.5	with the one and only Scott Galloway,
0:11.2	NYU Business Professor, Podcast Provocateur, serial entrepreneur, and author of
0:17.0	the new book The Algebra of Wealth, A Simple Formula for Financial Security. If you want to optimize your life for wealth and
0:25.1	success and who doesn't want to do that? Join us for a cocktail and what will
0:29.8	surely be a lively conversation. Listeners of this show get 50% off at the ticket price when they use the code
0:36.8	podcast.
0:37.8	Visit Next Big Idea Club.com slash events to learn more. I hope to see you there.
0:44.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:46.0	I'm Rufus Griskum and this is the next big idea.
0:54.2	Today, Cal Newport's ultimate guide to productivity. So, I don't know about you, but I've spent a good portion of my life measuring my effectiveness in effort.
1:23.0	If I run as hard as I can every day, I've thought to myself,
1:27.0	if I work rapidly until I have no more to give,
1:30.0	arriving at the evening like a shipwrecked
1:33.0	washed up on the shore, well, then I can feel good about my output.
1:38.0	As a serial entrepreneur, it has often felt like a plate- circus act riding a unicycle firing off
1:45.6	emails and texts while juggling projects interrupted by various crises.
1:50.9	It has been exhilarating I've been for much of my career addicted to the energy, the novelty, the
1:56.5	dopamine. The problem, of course, is that this approach to work is exhausting, and it's not very productive at the end of the day.
2:06.0	When we're responding to endless communications buffeted about by the shifting winds of other people's
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