Ep. 274: The Deep Life Stack v2.0

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Based on extensive feedback from listeners and new research, Cal is ready to unveil his new and improved version of the Deep Life Stack, his foundational approach for transforming your life from shallow and distracted to deep and remarkable.

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Deep Dive: The Deep Life Stack 2.0 [4:40]

- Does prioritizing deep work grow your task list? [38:02]

- Does deep work impede the development of soft skills? [41:04]

- How do I shut down work without clean stopping points? [46:31]

- CALL: Intrusive thoughts while doing deep work [52:29]

- CALL: How does Cal organize his working memory.txt [57:49]

CASE STUDY: Using slow productivity to build a house [1:00:30]

CAL REACTS: Should you “burn the boats” to motivate ambitious action? [1:08:00]

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amazon.com/Burn-Boats-Overboard-Unleash-Potential/dp/006308886X

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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
0:18.0	distracted world. So I'm here my my deep work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse.
0:29.7	Jesse we got to be on the ball today we got to be high energy today because as I told you before we recorded I have this quixotic plan that when we finish recording I am going to go immediately to Bevco down the street from the
0:45.2	studios a coffee store and finish editing and submit an article that I owe.
0:50.3	So every time you're right you have to be high energy? I mean I have to yeah I got have energy so I normally write first thing in the morning
0:56.1	We're recording at 3.30 I made good progress today writing but it's close I really want to just finish it So sometimes if I do an end of the day
1:05.0	writing session in a different location I can summon back up another 60 minutes
1:10.5	because that's when I used to traditionally write my blog post so I have a deep work
1:15.8	ritual sense memory around writing at that time. So we'll see. But you know I've said this
1:21.7	before I am going to go right after this recording and I failed
1:24.7	So it's a it's a toss-up whether we'll make it or not
1:28.1	Well if you go there you should be good to go right? I think so it's just matter we got we got a we got to be high energy I got a feel
1:35.2	coming out of this excited yeah intellectually engaged like you just did a cold
1:39.4	plunge exactly exactly you think I think if we did more cold plunge content, you think would be more popular?
1:46.0	We got it at Gonzaga so we can take the studio there.
1:49.0	Let's do it.
1:50.0	Like our guest appearance. I want to do an Andrew Huberman style 3 and a half hour episode on brown fat.
1:57.0	You can't beat them, join them.
2:00.0	I want to do a whole episode from a cold plunge that's the challenge that's us
2:04.3	I'm Cal Newport this is deep question stay deep all right see next week
2:08.3	You just hear me running to the hot shower. It'd be a lot quicker a lot to the point
2:13.0	Podcasts to the hot shower. It'd be a lot to the point.
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