I'm Cal Newport, and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life

in a distracted world.

I'm here in my Deep Work HQ.

I'm joined as always by my producer, Jesse.

Jesse, I've got a request I'm going to make of the audience.

I'm volunteering you here, so hopefully you're ready for that.

What do we got?

I need a story, a very specific story for a writing project.

So what I'm looking for is a story of someone who had like a big idea for a bold career move or like maybe like an ill defined.

I'm just going to go adventure and do like a Tim Ferriss, make money off my websites and live a life of adventure.

Someone who had like a very bold but ill-conceived idea that they went after young in life and it didn't go well.

Preferably someone who maybe even dropped out of schooling to do this.

I'm basically looking to, I had a story that I need to replace with another story.

So if anything in your past matches this, you're willing to share it for a writing project.

So some notion of like you dropped out of school or quit like a really good early job to go after some ill-conceived but inspirational sounding thing.

Didn't go well.

Send the note to jessia at Calnewport.com and I'll follow up and tell you more if I think

it's a fit.

So that would be useful.

By the way, those of you who sent in last fall stories about their interest in reorganizing

their life with my help, there's another round

of that coming. So you may still hear for me. So, you know, if you did send in that last fall

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