Ep. 267: Why Are You Tired?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Knowledge workers increasingly describe themselves as exhausted and burnt out. Why is this happening? In this episode, Cal argues that some of the obvious answers aren’t enough to explain the phenomenon. The real answer is both less expected and perhaps more fixable than we expect.

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Deep Dive: Tiredness and the ability to produce work [8:18]
- How can I read more without falling asleep? [34:25]
- Is screen time before bed killing my sleep? [38:19]
- How can I still have fun while being productive? [44:20]
- Is discipline an identity or a tool? [50:21]
- How do I find my way back to the deep life? [56:39]

CASE STUDY: A magazine editor integrates projects into a deep life [1:02:00]

Final Segment: Lauren Groff’s slow productivity [1:35:06]

Links:

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/books/lauren-groff-vaster-wilds.html
https://www.thefp.com/p/why-i-traded-my-smartphone-for-an-ax
https://midland-school.org/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749597809000399
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/books/lauren-groff-vaster-wilds.html

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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 in
0:12.5	a distracted world.
0:15.0	So I'm here in my Deep Work HQ.
0:23.8	The joint is always by my producer Jesse.
0:27.6	Play Jesse, I've been searching the office for our skeleton because most of the responses
0:32.1	to our what should we do for our Halloween episode question last week centered on Jesse
0:37.3	Skeleton coming back.
0:39.4	I'm thinking we're going to have an entire Q&A session, me and Jesse Skeleton.
0:44.4	And then you can do the voice.
0:46.1	Yeah, and then well, no, no, no.
0:47.8	Jesse Skeleton speaks is what you mean.
0:50.9	Do the voice.
0:51.9	Skeleton, the talks.
0:55.7	I'll tell you why I started reading the Elon Musk.
0:59.4	I got to tell you have it.
1:00.9	Yeah, I came in the mail yesterday.
1:03.2	I'm listing to it.
1:04.2	So is it a thick?
1:05.2	It's very thick.
1:06.2	Okay, so I have some time left.
1:07.2	I'll be honest, I don't know if you do this, but when I'm reading an epic biography, I put
1:12.3	the childhood on 1.5 speed.
	...

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