Ep. 318: Take a Break

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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One of the more viral suggestions from Cal’s recent book, SLOW PRODUCTIVITY, was to occasionally skip out of work to see a movie. In this episode, Cal dives deep into criticisms of this advice and decodes what this tells us about where knowledge work is faltering and how we can make things better. He then answers questions from listeners and reacts to some productivity advice given from a well-known CEO. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Ge...

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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.
0:28.8	Jesse there is some news where we got more award news so there's this organization I have
0:35.3	it here the S-A-B-E-W the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing been around 60 years so they have business editing and writing.
0:43.0	Been around 60 years.
0:44.5	So they have this annual business writing awards
0:49.4	that includes awards for the best business journalism
0:52.2	of the year and awards for the best business journalism of the year and awards for the best
0:53.8	business books of the year where they divide them into three categories they
0:59.5	have this prestigious panel of judges to give money to the winners etc.
1:03.0	Anyways, they just announced the day that we're recording that slow productivity is on the
1:07.9	short list for the Best Business Book of 2024 awards in one of the three categories so it's in the
1:16.6	career and financial development category it's my book it's Charles do higgs book
1:20.3	super-communicators it's Think Faster Talk Smarter, and 15 Lies Women are
1:24.7	told about work.
1:25.9	So supposedly, according to my publicist, it's cool.
1:29.3	This is good news.
1:30.3	So maybe we'll win, but at least we were a finalist.
1:32.1	I feel good about that.
1:33.0	Have you read it in the other books?
1:35.0	Charles's book I've read yeah yeah it came out right around the same time as mine we
1:39.2	both write for the New Yorker I've crossed paths with him before it's a good book
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