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Cal Newport — Find out how to Embrace Sluggish Productiveness, Construct a Deep Life, Obtain Mastery, and Defend Your Time (#722)

22 February 2024
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“You possibly can’t be busy and frenetic and bouncing off the partitions with 100 tasks when you’re obsessed about doing one thing very well.”

— Cal Newport

Cal Newport is a professor of laptop science at Georgetown College, the place he’s additionally a founding member of the Heart for Digital Ethics. Along with his tutorial work, Newport is a New York Occasions bestselling creator who writes for a common viewers in regards to the intersection of expertise, productiveness, and tradition. His books have offered tens of millions of copies and been translated into over forty languages. He’s additionally a contributor to The New Yorker and hosts the favored Deep Questions podcast.

His new guide is Sluggish Productiveness: The Misplaced Artwork of Accomplishment With out Burnout.

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#722: Cal Newport — Find out how to Embrace Sluggish Productiveness, Construct a Deep Life, Obtain Mastery, and Defend Your Time

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Need to hear the final time Cal Newport was on this present? Pay attention right here to our dialog during which we mentioned classes from Steve Martin, dwelling the deep life, how Cal secured his first guide deal as an unproven 20-year-old, honing the humorous bone for humor writing, mastering gradual productiveness regardless of Twenty first-century distractions, crafting the lives we need, contemplating the religious as an train of meticulous craft and creation, Cal’s 30-day digital minimalism declutter, and way more.

#568: Cal Newport — The Everlasting Pursuit of Craftsmanship, the Deep Life, Sluggish Productiveness, and a 30-Day Digital Minimalism Problem

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SHOW NOTES

  • [06:14] Unforced Errors: The Web Story.
  • [09:41] Techno-selectionism.
  • [18:06] Why YouTube and podcasts aren’t superb bedfellows.
  • [23:03] Amish expertise and Steve Martin.
  • [28:07] What prompted Cal to put in writing Sluggish Productiveness?
  • [31:35] Changing into a greater author by running a blog.
  • [36:54] The advantages of obsessing over high quality.
  • [40:54] How did Cal determine to determine himself as a author?
  • [52:02] Individuals who exemplify gradual productiveness.
  • [58:45] Commerce-offs on the trail to Twenty first-century gradual productiveness.
  • [1:03:16] Push methods vs. pull methods.
  • [1:04:34] Quota methods.
  • [1:06:08] Why gradual productiveness isn’t a zero-sum recreation.
  • [1:09:33] Language that clarifies.
  • [1:13:17] Sender filters.
  • [1:16:20] What individuals would possibly miss about Sluggish Productiveness‘s message.
  • [1:21:24] How Cal defines productiveness.
  • [1:25:36] Derek Sivers and cash as a impartial indicator of worth.
  • [1:28:34] Up to date gradual productiveness champions.
  • [1:33:18] Asynchronous vs. real-time conversations.
  • [1:35:51] Making group scheduling much less hellish.
  • [1:40:13] Cal’s drawback with Frederick Winslow Taylor.
  • [1:42:01] How The New Yorker maintains its old-timey attraction the place different publications fail.
  • [1:49:05] Cal’s dream publications.
  • [1:51:07] Psychological fashions for cultivating a gradual productiveness mindset.
  • [1:56:27] The results of taking part in the algorithm recreation.
  • [2:03:14] The renewed viability of newsletters.
  • [2:08:03] Parting ideas.

MORE CAL NEWPORT QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“You possibly can’t be busy and frenetic and bouncing off the partitions with 100 tasks when you’re obsessed about doing one thing very well.”
— Cal Newport

“As you get higher at one thing, the extra say you recover from the way in which your life unfolds.”
— Cal Newport

“You’ve received to only not need to get began till you possibly can’t assist however get began. And I believe that’s irritating for lots of the web technology as a result of it takes a very very long time.”
— Cal Newport

“There was no hustle tradition. That’s the fascinating factor. If you return and examine individuals producing issues of actual worth, utilizing their mind, they had been good they usually had been devoted they usually labored actually laborious, however they didn’t hustle they usually didn’t work 10-hour days day after day. They didn’t work all-out, year-round. They didn’t push, push, push till this factor was finished. It was a extra pure variation. They’d much less on their plate on the similar time, they usually glued all of it collectively by obsessing over high quality.”
— Cal Newport

“There’s nothing extra quixotic than the overburdened employee who’s attempting to not say no, however get the one that’s giving them the work to voluntarily comply with not give them the work. It by no means works. If somebody’s attempting to get you to do one thing, and also you’re like, ‘Effectively, I suppose I may, however I’m fairly busy,’ they’re by no means going to say, ‘You sound busy. Don’t do that.’ They’re like, ‘Yeah? Good. Effectively, I’m glad you are able to do it. Right here you go. Get this off my plate.’”
— Cal Newport

“Sluggish productiveness produces great things. It doesn’t simply make the employees happier. It doesn’t simply make you happier. You produce higher stuff. I imply, your organization has extra revenue. Your purchasers are happier. You possibly can cost extra for the providers you supply, so it’s not zero sum. It’s extra win-win than anything.”
— Cal Newport

“Busyness doesn’t produce excessive worth.”
— Cal Newport

“Don’t attempt to persuade individuals of latest issues. Clarify to them what they already know in a manner that lets them take higher motion.”
— Cal Newport

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