Ep. 276: Lazy or Disorganized?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

One of the most common types of messages sent in from listeners of this podcast are self-recriminations about laziness. But what does “laziness” actually mean? In this episode, Cal takes a deeper look at the common terms and sees that it’s often used to describe two unrelated phenomena. He then gives a big idea for overcoming each.

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Deep Dive: Overcoming laziness [4:00]

- How should I track small projects? [39:39]

- How do I find time to bodybuilder when I have a demanding job? [44:56]

- How do I remain motivated to work after graduation?[53:12]

- How do I make the shift from warehouse work to web development? [59:20]

- How do I deal with decision fatigue? [1:03:18]

- CALL: Implementing advice from pragmatic non-fiction books [1:07:53]

CASE STUDY: Pursuing a life of depth [1:11:31]

CAL REACTS: Algorithms act as conveyor belts [1:22:51]

LINKS:

jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/algorithms-hijacked-my-generation

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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 a
0:17.6	distracted world. So if you're new to what we have going on here, I am a computer science professor who
0:28.6	also writes about the impact of technology on how we live and how we work and how we relate to each other.
0:36.3	On this show I take the big ideas that I write about in my books, in my magazine articles, and my long-running newsletter and I
0:44.4	transform them into practical advice that you can put into action right now to
0:51.4	make your life deeper.
0:54.8	So I'm in my deep work HQ joined as always
0:58.6	by my producer Jesse.
1:01.4	Well, Jesse, I'll describe myself as being a little disappointed today. We're recording this the day before Thanksgiving
1:07.5	I was waiting for my call from open AI
1:11.5	To replace Sam Altman as the CEO but they went ahead and hired him back so the
1:17.0	call never came. I was excited to see you today because I was asking you
1:20.0	about it and then you're like you told me they got hired back and I didn't
1:22.4	even hear that yet. No it was disappointing to me. about it and then you're like you told me they got hired back and I didn't even
1:22.6	hear that yet. No it was disappointing to me I figured I actually you know I sent them a
1:26.6	proposal I was like look you put me in charge they obviously asked degree from MIT
1:30.4	right I know my stuff I have a vision for open AI where we put the AI technology
1:35.2	to use almost exclusively for rejecting and sending back emails. Like its whole point, I think the whole point of
1:43.4	GPT should be the intercept emails that are on its way and it should use its
1:48.0	thousands of watts of GPU computation to figure out how to keep those emails from getting to your inbox.
1:53.8	Yeah, I think that's the real use.
1:55.8	Prevent overload.
	...

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