Ep. 261: Control Your Time

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In celebration of the newly released *second* edition of the Time Block Planner, Cal provides some additional expert tips for getting the most out of a time blocking discipline before answering listener questions on the general topic of time management. He closes by discussing the recent claim that phones are ruining peoples’ ability to watch movies.

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 can I double what I accomplish each week by better controlling my time? [16:54]

- How do I deal with the guilt of missing time blocks? [44:17]

- How does Cal reconcile slow productivity with the urgency of time blocking? [49:22]

- How do I block enough time to keep up with all the internet content I want to read? [52:40]

- How do I stick to my block schedule if no one is forcing me to? [1:02:11]

- How can Cal be both a computer science professor and yet still be so bad at technology? [1:07:00]

Something Interesting: Have Phones Ruined Movies? [1:15:45]

Links:

washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/05/barbenheimer-bad-movie-behavior/

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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 Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about living and working deeply
0:16.1	in a distracted world.
0:18.8	So I'm recording up here in my Deep Work HQ North in Hanover, New Hampshire, joined by
0:26.0	my producer, Jesse, holding down the fort in the Deep Work HQ South in Tacoma Park, Maryland.
0:34.4	Jesse, I have good news that is going to assuage the fears of many of the listeners who
0:39.8	have been sending me increasingly worried emails.
0:42.8	I did finally go to see Oppenheimer.
0:46.2	I saw it with just two days left before it left the theater here in Hanover, New Hampshire.
0:52.7	So you know, listeners can rest assured.
0:55.0	I have seen it.
0:56.0	Jesse, have you seen it yet?
0:57.0	I have not seen it yet.
0:58.3	Okay.
0:59.3	So I've heard a lot about it on different programs and stuff.
1:01.3	So listeners, you need to turn your urgent emails towards Jesse now and get on him for not
1:06.7	having seen this movie.
1:09.2	It held up to my expectations.
1:12.1	Look, Nolan is doing something right now with his writing and directing.
1:17.7	The stylistic swings he's taking, I think, is just on another level than any other writer
1:23.4	director right now.
1:24.9	So if you see this movie, so you'll see this, Jesse, when you go to see it, he's taking
1:28.6	first of all two different perspectives, right?
	...

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