Ep. 263: Overhaul Your Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Too many people believe that the New Year is the right time to undertake major improvements to your life. In this episode, Cal argues that it is instead right now, at the beginning of fall, that is the best time to turn over a new page. He lays out a detailed 4-month journey through the deep stack that will have you done with a major overhaul by the time everyone else is just getting started early next year.

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Today’s Deep Question: How can I reinvent my life in 4 months? [6:30]

- How can I ease into Cal's more advanced time management strategies? [44:06]

- Can unstructured work be a part of the deep life? [47:42]

- How can I stop changing my mind about what I want to do with my life? [51:50]

- Can I pursue the deep life if I need a job? [59:33]

- How do you pursue the deep life with depression? [1:03:58]

Cover Reveal for Slow Productivity [1:13:20]

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about living and working deeply in
0:17.7	a distracted world.
0:23.2	I'm here in my Deep Work HQ.
0:26.3	I guess I have to qualify at least for a couple more weeks now, the Deep Work HQ South
0:31.7	my original HQ in Washington, D.C. as I am now back for my summer up north.
0:37.1	I am joined in studio for the first time in six weeks by my producer Jesse.
0:43.5	It's good to have you back.
0:45.5	Yeah, let me tell you this, never underestimate the value of having a studio that's all set
0:53.0	up that you can just come to.
0:54.2	I appreciate that now after spending a summer recording remotely in a basement with all
0:59.8	of these pillows to try to dampen the sound using remote software coming back here while
1:04.3	you're on vacation just having a place to go that has all the equipment and it's sound
1:09.3	proofed and everyone's just in the same place, never going to take it for granted again.
1:13.5	That's good.
1:14.5	It will go to about it.
1:15.5	Let me tell you this, speaking of the coma park.
1:18.1	So in the last, I think just two weeks from doing my math right, I've run into two different
1:24.3	people and I won't get their specific details because you know privacy reasons, but two
1:29.4	different people that are relatively known names in the world of podcasting.
1:35.6	One runs a well-known company within the space in the podcast space.
1:40.0	The other one is a sort of a well-known producer within the space that runs his own consultancy
1:45.6	podcast consultancy.
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