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Ep. 283: How To Organize Your Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Automating important activities and reducing unimportant ones for a deeper life

The key insight is to regularly protect time for social activities by scheduling evenings for friends at the beginning of each week, and automating this process by inviting someone early in the week. It's important to focus on automating what's important in life rather than seeking a perfect set of activities. Additionally, living life off the calendar helps in understanding where time goes and enables one to reduce unimportant activities, ultimately leading to a deeper life.

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during those evenings from like six to nine maybe thursday and friday and my plan is at the beginning of every week just try to invite someone whoever i kind of run into early in the week say hey do you want to grab something thursday night or friday night because you know those days are always free you always have time held aside for doing something with friends and now you just have to have the heuristic of okay when i next friend i run into if i don't yet have plans for this week i say let's just do x y and z i have the time free this time is being regularly protected is you're automating what's important to you don't worry about getting a perfect set of activities to automate what's the complete set of things i need to remember to do what's the complete set of things that i want to do that's going to make my life deeper you'll get better at that as you advance through the process that follows of making your life deeper all this will be refined just get in the habit now of automating what's important if you're going to live your life off the calendar get all the stuff that you want or have to do
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on there all
Speaker 1
right step three and this is sort of the secret sauce that is really going to set you up for building a deep life reduce what's not important one of the key side effects of living your personal life off your calendar is that you will get a very clear understanding of where your time goes because you're

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