Ep. 322: The Discipline Ladder

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Do you struggle to consistently make progress on hard things that are important to you? In today’s episode, Cal describes a way to improve this state of affairs: a systematic training regime called the discipline ladder. He then answers listener questions about their own struggles with discipline and reacts to an article claiming that professors are lazy (gasp!). Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s t...

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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 Life HQ, Tacoma Park, Maryland, joined as always by my producer
0:29.9	Jesse.
0:30.9	Just I don't know if you know I had another New Yorker piece come out.
0:34.0	I did not.
0:35.0	Yeah, I should spread the word.
0:36.2	It would have come out last week when you're listening to this.
0:41.0	It was about artificial intelligence and how students are using it to write.
0:48.0	Okay. So the title of the article is, what type of writer is ChatGPT. And I spend some time actually watching
0:56.7	one student in particular watching that student work on a paper with Chappee.
1:05.0	And I kind of get into like what he's actually doing,
1:06.8	and then it's sort of a mystery piece
1:07.8	trying to figure out, like, well, what's actually going on here?
1:09.7	Like, what is this interaction?
1:11.1	What does it tell us about technology in the future of pedagogy so it's a fun article
1:16.2	well we'll include a link on the show notes
1:19.5	it really it upset someone I think he emailed me or something.
1:25.0	It upset someone because the student was in the UK.
1:31.0	So in the UK, they refer to their big papers as exams. You write your
1:36.8	exam. But he was that threw someone off like what what are you talking about
1:40.3	writing an exam? How do you write an exam? You don't write an exam, you answer questions
1:44.7	on an exam. So we definitely had some UK-US translation issues there. For all who are worried,
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