Ep. 271: The Long Game

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Much of the advice we discuss is about how to improve things right now. But what are the right strategies for ensuring that we’re happy about where we are five or even ten years in the future. How do we ensure, in other words, that we won’t look back at major swaths of our lives with regret? In this episode, Cal discusses three big ideas for playing the long game when it comes to cultivating a deep life.

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Deep Dive: What can you do now to stay content later? [3:30]

- What habits help you escape complacency? [25:51]

- How do I know if I need a major change to my life? [31:00]

- How can I rediscover my drive to live deep with a boring (but stable) job? [36:08]

- CALL: Avoiding the stress of having a large “to-do” list [41:07]

CASE STUDY: Designing a deep work t-shirt to be productive [47:22]

CAL REACTS: Is Social Media a Collective Trap? [56:03]

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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 a distracted world.
0:20.0	So I'm here in my deep work, HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse.
0:29.0	Jesse, there's something we saw on the internet this past week that I am of two minds of. I'm of two minds.
0:35.9	I think it represents one of two things. Either the potential of the internet finally being fully realized the apotheosis of the internet
0:46.0	society or a harbinger of the deterioration of our culture as we know it. I think you know what I'm talking about. It's the website a fan put together with the
0:56.7	URL Jesse Skeleton.com. It's actually a pretty good-looking website.
1:03.0	Yeah, it has a new text of you the URL.
1:05.0	It has a hero header, a term I learned from our web designers.
1:09.0	We have like the full bleed header with like video going in it
1:12.0	and has links to every
1:13.8	Jesse Skeleton appearance and like some commentary on the Jesse Skeleton
1:18.5	experience. If you don't know what we're talking about, again, as I always say, congratulations, because it's nonsense.
1:25.6	Next week is our Halloween episode, however, so maybe Jesse Skeleton will make an appearance. I bought some new, our old Jesse Skeleton I'm using in our
1:37.1	Halloween display because I bought some new skeletons and they're no good. They
1:41.7	don't pose but I'm thinking I could repurpose one of those as
1:45.1	Jesse's skeleton. So I think we're okay. Yeah, we will be okay. There is a good show coming
1:51.0	up so we have a deep dive where we will get in the weeds a little bit on
1:57.6	planning among other topics so for those who like some of the more geekish focus on specifics we will be
2:04.0	getting there then we have a question block that is more diverse this time in
2:08.3	addition to just questions that Jesse reads I believe Jesse right we have an audio call.
2:14.0	Yep. The triumphant return of audio calls and we have a case study so it's going to be an
2:19.0	interesting question block and then for the final segment there is a academic paper that's making the
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