Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 31: RYAN HOLIDAY on Ranch Life, Fostering Discipline, and the Loss of Reading Culture

Sep 28, 2020

01:15:59

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How to Write a Really Good Book Idea

01:44

Writing - Is It Hard?

04:09

The Importance of Long Form Thinking in the Age of Twitter Culture

02:00

Organizing Your Notes

01:33

Introduction

6min

Are You Leaving California?

2min

Is It What You Wanted to Be Like?

2min

The Littlest Horehouse in Texas

3min

Moving the Books

3min

Your Land Is Beyond Just the Spaces in Which You Work

2min

Are We Able to Concentrate on Our Work Deeply, Though We Have Distractions Like Traffic Noise and Big Sounds?

2min

You Can't Just Run Away, You've Got to Find Something That Works

3min

How to Get Through the Number of Books You Get Through

2min

10.

How Do You Get Faster at Reading?

3min

11.

I'm Reading, and Then I Review the Next Page

2min

12.

Organizing Your Notes

2min

13.

How to Write a New Book About the Stoics

2min

14.

How to Write a Really Good Book Idea

2min

15.

What Makes Sammy Run?

3min

16.

Is There Something Here, or Is This a Business?

2min

17.

How Did You Know for Obstacle?

2min

18.

Book Review - Is It a Success?

3min

19.

I'm in a Flow, It's Not Like a Cash Grab

2min

20.

Writing - Is It Hard?

4min

21.

Is It a Phenomenon?

4min

22.

What's Lost When Your Generation Doesn't Have a Voice in Long Form?

2min

23.

Is There More of That?

4min

24.

I'm Not Sure, This Is No Not Ye

6min

25.

Is the Civil War a Critical Theory?

3min

26.

Critical Theory - Is It Really a Theory?

3min

27.

Do You Struggle With Specialization?

3min

28.

The Stoic Life of the Stoics

2min

In this episode of Deep Questions we try something a little different: our first guest!

Bestselling author Ryan Holiday joins me to help answer reader questions, as well as more than a few queries from me. We cover a variety of topics, including his life as a writer living on a ranch, how he fosters discipline, the impact of our diminishing reading culture, and why everyone keeps trying to get me to move to Austin.

Be sure to check out Ryan's new book: LIVES OF THE STOICS (https://dailystoic.com/preorder).

To submit your own questions for the show, sign up for my mailing list at calnewport.com.

You can submit audio questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/CalNewport

Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music.

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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 31: RYAN HOLIDAY on Ranch Life, Fostering Discipline, and the Loss of Reading Culture

How to Write a Really Good Book Idea

Writing - Is It Hard?

The Importance of Long Form Thinking in the Age of Twitter Culture

Organizing Your Notes

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