Ep. 334: Hallmark Movies and the Deep Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Cal talks about his journey into the tinsel-tinged world of Hallmark Christmas movies, where he discovered an unexpected connection between these low-budget productions and a key idea in the quest to cultivate a deep life in a distracted world. He then answers questions from listeners and reviews the books he read in December.

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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	All right, so I'm here in my Deep Work, HQ.
0:26.5	I joined, as always, by my producer, Jesse.
0:29.6	Jesse, happy new year.
0:30.9	Happy New Year.
0:31.4	This is the fifth calendar year in which the Deep Questions podcast has broadcast.
0:38.3	That's impressive.
0:39.4	So there we go.
0:40.1	This has been a longer term part of my life than I guess I realized that's starting to go back now.
0:45.3	We've been out of for a while.
0:47.3	I like to start a show as I have been recently doing the brag corner.
0:50.9	I was trying to find something to brag about the new book, slow productivity.
0:54.6	We're starting to, you know, it's been a little while since the book came out. So we're starting
0:57.0	to run out of things. But we got the next big idea club. This is the description book box
1:04.1	that was started by Gladwell and Adam Grant and Dan Pink and Susan Kane. They named
1:09.7	Slow Productivity is one of their best books of 2024.
1:14.4	They were 24 best books of 2024.
1:17.3	There was something else.
1:19.8	It wasn't the Pulitzer Prize.
1:23.4	Nobel Prize?
1:24.4	It didn't win the Nobel Prize.
1:28.2	There was something else. It was selected for that. And then Prize. There was something else.
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