Ep. 282: Slow Distractions

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

During the New Year season it is common to talk about how to be more productive. But what about the downtime between your major pursuits? In this episode, Cal argues for rewiring your brain to crave slow distractions over their faster (often digital) alternatives. The goal here is not to get more done but to transform your life into something slower and more meaningful.

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Deep Dive: Slow Distractions [2:25]

- How do I work deeply as a stay-at-home parent? [29:12]
- Isn’t it myopic not to let young children use smartphones? [36:44]
- How do I succeed as a musician without social media? [38:09]
- How do I make plans without social media? [48:37]
- CALL: How to share ideas without allowing social media to take control [55:02]

CAL REACTS: I’m a 33-year old woman without a job [1:05:55]

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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.
0:30.3	So if you're new to the show, I'm a computer science professor at Georgetown University and a digital theorist who writes about the way technology impacts how we live, work, and relate
0:35.8	to each other on the show, I give you concrete advice for taking action on the type of ideas.
0:42.2	I write about, if you want to watch video of what you are
0:46.8	listening to today, just go to the DeepLife.com slash listen. This is episode
0:52.4	282, video of the full episode. Listen. This is episode 282.
0:54.0	The video of the full episode will be posted on the page for this episode within a day or so of it first airing.
1:00.0	All right, so I'm here in my Deep Work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse.
1:06.0	Jesse you might have noticed my voice is a little raw.
1:09.4	I will say I have seven nieces and nephews on the one side of my family.
1:18.0	Really? All young.
1:20.0	Preschooled the young elementary age.
1:22.0	And it's cool from an uncle perspective, but when we all get together in the same house for the Christmas break,
1:29.7	it is essentially, and I say this without exaggeration like the town from the movie outbreak.
1:35.6	That was a good movie. That was like 20 years old. Yeah that's basically
1:40.5	getting this group together into winter. I took a test when I got
1:44.8	home and it just burst into flames. So I don't know if that's good or bad but every
1:50.9	disease was there. Oh, well, anyways, so my voice little gravely, but I'm going to try to persist as we have so much interesting stuff to get through.
2:01.0	It's the new year.
2:03.4	We have our new year's resolutions, hats on.
2:06.1	It's a great time for people to get some inspiration
2:08.8	for escaping the shallows and seeking the depths and we want to be here for you. We don't take
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