Ep. 252: The Deep Life Stack

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

How do you leave a life of superficial distraction and cultivate something deeper? In today’s episode, Cal describes “The Deep Life Stack,” an approach to cultivating a deep life that starts with overhauling the person before making the big decisions.

Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo

Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia

Today’s Deep Question: How do I rebuild my life into something deeper? [6:29]

- Is the deep life only available to those with high salaries? [31:55]

- How do I co-create a deep life with my partner? [41:48]

- Is there a genetic component to depth? [45:24]

- What are Cal’s thoughts on the book “Designing Your Life”? [58:31]

Something Interesting: Forget AI. Apple’s all in on AR. (And this is smart.) [1:06:34]

Links:

apple.com/apple-vision-pro/

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm CalNewPort and this is DeepQuestions, the show about living and working deeply in
0:17.7	a distracted world.
0:20.3	So I'm here at my DeepWork HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse.
0:29.3	Jesse, I got some news.
0:32.4	There is now officially available on Amazon for pre-order is the new edition of the Time
0:41.2	Block Planner.
0:42.2	Oh, nice.
0:43.2	It took a long time coming because of supply chain issues, et cetera.
0:46.9	Also we really spent a lot of time trying to get it right.
0:48.9	I'll have to bring it in, but we have a stack of what are called blanks.
0:53.2	So just to get the new material right, the new binding right, they built these blank
0:57.0	versions right.
0:58.0	There's no color.
0:59.0	It's all white.
1:00.0	We went through a lot of those to try to get it just right.
1:01.8	But very happy with how it ended up spiral binding, right?
1:04.3	It's spiral bound.
1:05.3	So these are, I'll get into these details as it gets a little bit closer.
1:07.9	The official sell date when it's available to ship is August 15th, but I can tell you
1:13.1	briefly now the big difference is really high quality spiral binding, double wire big,
1:20.4	big loop spiral bindings.
1:21.6	You can open this thing, lie it completely flat.
	...

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