Ep. 333: New Year Course Correction

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

It’s the New Year, which means people are thinking about making changes to their lives. In this episode, Cal offers small but high impact tweaks – what he calls “course corrections” – to immediately find more depth in 2025. He then answers listener questions and ends with a tech corner segment where he steps into an online debate about the future of social media.

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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.
0:24.0	Right, so I'm here on my Deep Work HQ.
0:26.3	I'm joined, as always, by my producer, Jesse.
0:28.6	When this airs, Jesse, I believe it's, what, the day before New Year's Eve or New
0:33.9	Year's Eve, it's something right at the 30th.
0:36.2	Okay.
0:37.0	I don't mean to break the spell of
0:39.1	the reality of production processes, but we're actually recording this before Christmas. But for
0:44.1	those hearing it, you know, happy almost New Year. I always think of this as our most,
0:48.4	one of our most important episodes of the year, Jesse, because people are coming back from
0:52.5	vacation. It's a little bit sad.
0:55.0	It's winter.
0:55.6	It's dark.
0:56.8	You kind of have a long run until you get to the fun stuff like in the spring.
1:01.3	And you got to be brought back into the mindset of, okay, work and distraction and your phones and the world outside that you're seeing through social media.
1:10.1	And so you need a good dose of deep questions, right, as to new your approaches.
1:15.0	That's true.
1:15.6	It goes hand in hand with the NFL playoffs.
1:17.7	And it goes hand in hand with the NFL playoffs.
1:19.6	And so you have a lot of focus on that.
1:23.3	You got the end of the baseball off season.
1:25.1	There's a lot going on here.
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