Sunday Pick: How to be productive without burning out with Cal Newport | ReThinking

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🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Each Sunday, TED shares an episode of another podcast we think you'll love, handpicked for you… by us. This is an episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant. Cal Newport knows a thing or two about productivity: when he’s not teaching computer science at Georgetown, he’s writing for The New Yorker, hosting a podcast, or authoring New York Times bestsellers like “Deep Work” and “Digital Minimalism.” In his new book, “Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout”, Cal proposes that we trade current standards of rapid output for slower, higher-quality, and sustainable ways of working. Adam and Cal dig into the data on productivity, debate the benefits and drawbacks of doing fewer things (and spending less time on email and social media), and discuss individual habits and organizational practices for preventing burnout and promoting worthwhile work.

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0:00.0	Hey, Ted Talks Daily listeners, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:09.6	As you head toward the new year, we at TED wanted to share a special episode that will help you start 2025 Ray.
0:15.6	A common New Year's resolution is to get a promotion or even a new job.
0:19.9	However, the quest for career advancement can
0:22.0	be pretty exhausting. Trying to reach big goals often leads people to work so hard they burn
0:27.4	themselves out. To help you avoid this, we're sharing an episode of rethinking featuring Cal
0:32.7	Newport, the author of Slow Productivity, the Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnow.
0:38.8	You'll hear important takeaways on productivity
0:40.9	why doing less might help you do more in the long run
0:44.1	and how to create habits that help you succeed in a sustainable way.
0:48.4	If you want more insights that will help you conquer the new year,
0:51.3	you can find it each week on rethinking,
0:53.3	available wherever you get your
0:54.9	podcasts. Learn more about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.tad.com.
1:04.8	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes
1:10.2	Us Tick with the TED Audio
1:11.7	Collective. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
1:16.6	people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking. My guest today is Cal Newport. His day job
1:25.9	is as a computer science professor at Georgetown. But I'm more
1:29.3	interested in his side hustle. He's one of the world's foremost thinkers on how to make work better.
1:35.0	Cal Moonlights is a New Yorker writer, podcast host, and best-selling author of books like deep work,
1:40.8	so good they can't ignore you, and digital minimalism. He's joining me today to talk about his new book, Slow Productivity, The Lost Art of
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