Ep. 278: How to Think

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

One of the most important skills for cultivating a satisfying and high impact life is one we rarely discuss: the art of serious thinking. In this episode, Cal makes the case for serious thinking as an ability to specifically cultivate, then describes five specific practices you can put into place to launch a crash course in developing an effective life of the mind.

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Deep Dive: How to Think [4:07]

- Does reading count as Deep Work? [38:50]
- How do I make sense of the topics I think about? [41:48]
- How should I manage boredom in a job without hurting my ability to focus? [45:12]
- How can I provide quick answers to management if I’m a slow thinker? [50:40]
- CALL: How should I structure my Deep Holiday? [56:44]

CASE STUDY: A successful Digital Detox allowing one to think in peace. [59:55]

CAL REACTS: Does collaboration make us less creative? [1:07:29]

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Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, Kieron Rees for slow productivity 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.
0:22.0	So if you're new, I'm a computer science professor and digital theorist at
0:29.6	Georgetown University who writes about the way technology impacts how we live how we work how we
0:34.4	think and how we relate to each other on this show I give you concrete advice for
0:40.6	putting those big action, big ideas into action.
0:46.1	So I'm here in my deep work HQ,
0:49.0	joined as always by my producer Jesse.
0:59.6	Jesse, you mentioned in our show notes here that you know something we should probably also mention to do listeners is that we we built a pretty good
1:03.0	Start here page yeah we did we got to tell you about that.
1:04.0	For people who are sort of new to the deep life type
1:08.0	cosmology, if you will,
1:10.0	that's over at the website the deep life.com, You go over there. Is there a link that says start here?
1:15.6	Yeah. Yeah. You click on that start here link. What I've done is just taken some of the
1:19.9	questions people ask about this general topic living deeper in a
1:24.7	distracted world and I point out podcast episodes and articles to get you
1:29.4	started on looking into that particular question so we have a bunch of questions up there with
1:33.8	sample articles, sample podcast to get you started. It's something we really should update more
1:38.1	Jesse so maybe we'll stay on that. I forgot that's there. I mean here's here's the way I've
1:42.4	explained this before but just so everyone's up the speed the way the the web world of Cal Newport works
1:47.6	There's two websites
1:49.3	Cal Newport.com and the deep life dotcom. So Cal Newport.com is the website for me as an
1:57.6	individual. It has two channels on it essentially the Cal the professor, digital ethics center, computer
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