Ep. 280: Proven Rules for Deep Living (w/ Arthur Brooks)

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

The mega-bestselling writer Arthur Brooks is one of the rare individuals to have both lived a carefully cultivated deep life and written a book on the topic (co-authored with Oprah!). In today’s episode, Cal interviews Brooks, going deep into the details of his unusual and inspiring career and extracting proven rules from his experience.

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INTERVIEW: Mega-bestselling writer Arthur Brooks [6:39]

Cal’s Favorite Completely Unnecessary and Embarrassingly Geeky Things for 2024 [1:16:04]

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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 distracted world.
0:29.2	So I'm here in my deep work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse Jesse happy Merry Christmas I should say this episode is coming out on Christmas day I think if I'm doing my math correctly
0:38.4	Merry Christmas there we go can we have Mark add some holiday music back here we sure can all right let's do
0:45.8	that all right here we go now we've got a holiday episode up and running I
0:51.6	I don't know actually jessie I don't know what you think the week of
0:54.7	Christmas vacation when this comes out is this going to be an unusually large
0:59.6	number of listeners or an unusually small number of listeners I could really see of
1:05.0	a number of listeners or an unusually small number of listeners. I could really see both being true.
1:07.0	People aren't commuting, they aren't going to work.
1:10.0	On the other hand, I imagine a lot of people listening to this right now are you know at their in-laws house
1:16.7	on their third walk of the day
1:19.6	You know what I mean? Like I don't I don't I don't need to hear my brother-in-law's theories on the Middle East anymore.
1:25.0	I need to go pick up some eggs from the store.
1:28.0	So we might have a lot of people just looking for some peace and quiet right now.
1:32.0	So I think we're doing an important service.
1:35.6	I actually do have a holiday related public service announcement.
1:39.2	I think this is very important.
1:41.7	Not for our Christian listener celebrating Christmas, but actually this is for our
1:45.9	Jewish listeners, very important public service announcement. A couple weeks ago, went to a party, this was during Hanukkah, and there's kids there,
1:57.0	there's some dradles. So the host said, hey, let's do a dradle tournament.
2:02.0	It's like, great, we're going to do a dreidel tournament.
2:03.0	It's like, hey, we're gonna do a dreidel.
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