Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 204: Deep Life Principles

Jul 11, 2022

01:33:07

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Is Planning for Two Weeks a Good Idea?

02:04

The Trap of Adding More Hours for More Money

03:33

Dealing with Overthinking: Breaking Out of the Right-Wrong Decision Binary

01:04

The Evolution of Productivity Metrics

01:22

Introduction

2min

Fibre Glass Dinosaurs

2min

I Built This All Whilst You Were on Your Computer

4min

Then You Can Bind the Chromatic Number of Grafts With a Polynomial

2min

The Power of Business and Exhaustion - The Principle of Slow Productivity

2min

What Does Productivity Mean?

4min

Writing a Productivity Book - How to Write a Book in 15 to 20 Word Sections

2min

How to Write a Weekly Plan

4min

How to Save 50 % or More on Life Insurance

3min

10.

Planning Two Weeks Instead of One

2min

11.

How to Separate the Inbox Cleaning and Weekly Planning

3min

12.

Do You Have Personal Time Blocks in Your Workday?

2min

13.

How Can I Brainwash My Little Brother to Make Him Not Follow His Passion?

3min

14.

College Is Just a Spring Board

5min

15.

How to Write a Good Essay in English Literature

4min

16.

How to Use Feedback to Improve Academic Research

3min

17.

How to Predict the Early a Tenure and Success With a PhD

6min

18.

The Choice Job - What Matters?

2min

19.

How to Make a Decision That Will Work for You

4min

20.

The First Godfather by Mark Seal

2min

21.

Adam Savage and the Cave by Mark Korlansky

4min

22.

Slow Productivity - The Story of Less Moonves and Bill Carter

2min

23.

The First Blood by John Rambow

4min

24.

Are You Still Reading a Beast of a Book?

5min

25.

Z Biodox - The Best Z Biodox Product Ever!

5min

26.

Slow Productivity

2min

27.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

4min

28.

The Deep Life Bucket Exercise

2min

29.

Career Capital - The Fuel of the Deep Life

3min

30.

What's the Point of a Title?

2min

Cal Reacts: A slow productivity case study [5:19]

- What do you think about planning two weeks out instead of one? [25:52]
- How can I brainwash my little brother to make him not follow his passion? [32:43]
- Improving at deliberate practice with a slow feedback loop [42:33]
- How can I stop overthinking? [49:53]

The Six Books Cal Read in June 2022 [54:48]

- Slow productivity and billable hours [1:20:24]
- What are the key principles of living the deep life? [1:24:21]

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Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Mark Miles for mastering.

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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 204: Deep Life Principles

Is Planning for Two Weeks a Good Idea?

The Trap of Adding More Hours for More Money

Dealing with Overthinking: Breaking Out of the Right-Wrong Decision Binary

The Evolution of Productivity Metrics

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