Ep. 323: Strategic Procrastination

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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One of the most common complaints from people attempting to cultivate a deep life in our distracted world is procrastination. You want to make regular progress on something important but find you just can’t get going. In this episode, Cal discusses a less well understood cause of some procrastination and offers unconventional advice for facing it. He also answers listener questions and reacts to an article about a famous author’s unexpected regret. Below are the questions covered i...

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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.
0:19.0	I'm here in my deep work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse.
0:28.0	Jesse unfortunately I had to take Jesse's skeleton out of our HQ because I needed it for our Halloween deck a morning. He's finally back to his true passion, which is being a part of a Halloween
0:45.0	decoration and not upsetting journalists that come to interview me at the HQ.
0:49.7	But I'll bring him back, I'll bring him back after Halloween.
0:53.0	I have an announcement and a request for the audience before we get into the show today.
0:58.0	Announcement, this is just a bit of good news, someone sent this to me.
1:01.0	Parade magazine, remember Parade Magazine from USA Today, earlier in
1:05.8	October, had a headline, an article titled Exclusive Goodreads reveals the nine most popular self-help books of 2024 so far.
1:17.0	Here's a little bit of the article introduction.
1:20.0	Goodreads reveals exclusively to parade its most popular self-help books of 2024.
1:26.4	Scrolling down a little bit. Goodreads dove into the data and offers us an exclusive look
1:30.9	at the most popular self-help life hacking somebody
1:34.0	explained AI to me books of 2024 and not a moment too soon all right so they had a
1:38.8	list of nine number one on this list Jesse, slow productivity by Cal Newport.
1:45.0	That's exciting.
1:46.0	So you got to check it out.
1:48.0	If you have not yet bought slow productivity, you can buy it wherever books are sold.
1:52.0	It's kind of like the Rosetta Stone for, I like to think of about 50% of what we talk about on this show.
1:58.0	Other books on this list are interesting.
2:00.2	The other significant others was on here, which has the subtitle Re-imagining Life
2:06.4	with Friendship at the Center. I've heard about that book. Ethan Moloch's co-intelligence
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