Ep. 315: The Surprising Myth of Doing Less

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In this classic episode, Cal talks about the surprising myth of doing less. Cal then answers questions about discipline and solving complicated problems. Cal concludes the episode with a review of the books he read back in April 2022. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvoVideo from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmediaDeep Dive: The Surprising Math of Doing Less [3:33]- How do I im...

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world.
0:20.0	So I'm here in my deep work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse.
0:29.2	Jesse another mystery. Last week our mics fell off without at the same time.
0:37.0	Just they both fell off their stands. This week the mystery is there is a plant,
0:42.1	this is true is a plant, this is true, a plant has showed up in our office that I
0:47.4	didn't bring here, Jesse didn't bring it here, we don't know where this plant
0:51.1	came from but there is a plant in a very nice pot someone added.
0:54.8	It might have been the cleaning crew.
0:56.8	Could have been Jesse Skeleton.
0:58.0	It could have been Jesse Skeleton, you know, with all of his new fame from being featured in
1:02.4	El Paus in Spain.
1:04.0	He's an international superstar.
1:05.6	Maybe the Zoe, the supercoat, I don't know.
1:08.8	But anyways, we have a mysterious plant.
1:10.6	Last week we assumed that it was sabotage from Lexford Min's team that made our
1:14.5	microphones fall off so we're like 50% convinced that this is the plant was
1:18.3	set by Lex's team as well but it has a hidden microphone in it.
1:21.2	Yeah, so we think that's that's going on. So if you find
1:24.2	Lex's podcast is sort of scooping us on everything we talk about is the plan.
1:28.2	Speaking of Lex, did you listen to his eight-hour podcast that he put out the other day
1:31.8	with like Elon and... No no yeah it's long it's
1:34.8	eight hours yeah it's on YouTube too oh man it's got like four different people that's like a whole
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