Everyday Small Habits That Lead To Incredible Results | Cal Newport

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Cal Newport talks about deep habits in Episode 309 of the Deep Questions podcast.

On this show, we often talk about major overhauls to your work and life. In this episode, we go the other way and focus on the small habits that can make a big difference. In more detail, Cal describes eight surprisingly small strategies – four focused on work and four focused on life outside of work – for finding more depth in a distracted world. He then answers listener questions and reacts to a recent article about pushback to calls to limiting social media for kids.

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0:00 Deep Habits
31:26 Do you experience any pleasure during deep work?
36:08 How many deep work sessions should I do each working week?
38:42 How can I prioritize my goals in my personal life?
41:28 Does the suggestion to “limit daily goals” conflict with time blocking?
43:38 Building my career around a desired lifestyle
52:07 Countering Pushback to Limiting Social Media for Kids

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About Cal Newport:
Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University. In addition to his academic research, he writes about the intersection of digital technology and culture. Cal's particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives.

Cal is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including, most recently, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. He's also the creator of The Time-Block Planner.

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I'm trying to change myself almost 15 years and still not working but I decided to keep trying over and over again.

abdullahhassan
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Great quote from Cal around 21 minutes in about posting on social media :

"It's when you post that you begin to become concerned about what these faceless digital denizens think about you and what you're saying. The anxiety of, 'Do they like this?' And the euphoria if they do and the pain if they don't. The isolation and self destruction if you post the wrong thing. It's what begins to warp your understanding of the world to be based upon the feedback you're getting of this very artificial, algorithmically amplified crowd. It'll change what you believe to be true. It'll change how you approach life. It's most likely gonna create a digital cage of unhappiness."

victoriaoliver
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Having "work quotas" was good advice. I'm a freelancer, and the temptation is to always say yes to a new project. Now I've learned to think first before saying yes, and if my workload could be too much I say, "Thanks for asking but my plate is a full as I like it to be." I like that phrase. They can't argue with it. And it teaches others there is a limit to how much they should take on too.

MaryJane
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Thanks Cal! Really dig two books of yours which I own, Deep Work and Slow Productivity. Lots of well-informed, practical wisdom. Maybe your next book will be called "Deep Life"???

ontherock
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How did it take so long to find you? New subscriber and ordered Slow Productivity! Thank you, sir!!❤

Joshua-sdcb
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So many excellent tips in this episode

goddessofwar
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I like the ‘ads’ Cal does about his sponsors. It gives a little break in the episodes where I can not focus for a couple minutes. I’ve used several of them and used the Cal discount. The salt packets, the vpn, grammarly. I really want the sheets.

sancap
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Just read Giovanni Dienstman Mindful Self-Discipline. What a great combo you two are.

drsaintdc
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As usual, interesting and informative. Great job1

huntsail
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Cal reading the ads is hilarious. The small habits are great too! Already wrote down a few Imma test come tomorrow.

dowhatyouwill
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I use notion for the memory text file trick, it’s available on all my devices so makes it easy to access and dump. I also keep all my tasks, goals, projects and things I learn in there, organized in my own library.

WizDom
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Guys, as a student I found for myself that doing the work I need to do in the morning on empthy stomach for 3-4 hours is most productive to me and I focused like a sharp knife. Anyone similar here who can tell if it is working for him too?

zeevolan
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Could you inform me about the brand of earphones Cal is using in this video?

rashedulkabir
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Nicole is talking about hedonic adaptation. The Stoics new about her problem 2 thousand years ago

reginaldphillips
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working quotas reminded me of WIP limits Kanban users will recognize this ;)

ronaldcastellon-vp
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In all fairness, our schools refused phone use even when ill or stranded. That said, my kids just texted me. Lol.

GoingGreenMom
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55:35 but trying to stop kids from using alcohol *doesn't* work (at least in some cases), they end up abusing it way worse behind the parents back, what works is offering your kids alcohol openly and modeling responsible drinking, taking away the "cool" factor of drinking. same argument could be applied to social media. other counterarguments seemed good (except for the last one im not educated enough to comment on how scientific consensus works)

RemotHuman
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Please make shorter videos so we can watch it. 1 hour video is too long, sir.

AVA.
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everyday small habits
WORK:
1. Reciprocal meeting blocks
-- when you schedule meeting
--- plan in a block of equal length in your week for deep work to protect deep work
--- plan in extra 20 minutes after meeting... (follow up, recover from meeting, ...)

2. Work quotas
-- when quota is full, start saying NO to further requests
-- eg you do 5 of such things in a month, no more
-- predictively look ahead... already turn down requests before the quota is full
if you expect an incoming request

3. Coordination mondays and summer fridays
-- coordination monday: all about organizing work and cooperation
--- ask for meeting, for questions, talking about projects, ...
--- getting weekly plan in place
-- summer friday: end work early on fridays, don't offer friday afternoons for meetings
--- have an afternoon to unwind
--- do something different

4. working memory.txt file
-- what is file used for?
--- extension of your brain...
--- notes about what you are doing/thinking...
keeping track of things you should do or are doing
--- don't worry about formatting text

OUTSIDE WORK:
5. single purpose notebooks for big challenges
-- working on a particular problem.
--- dedicate a single notebook to this problem
--- take the notebook with you wherever you go
--- how to.., brainstorm, ...
--- over time it will help you to find a solution

6. thinking walks
-- take thinking walks everyday
--- to think about a particular thing
--- being alone with your own thoughts
--- walk in nature

7. never post
-- don't use social media
--- don't post, unless you really have to (eg for a business, publicity, ...)
--- don't do it

8. do something hard
-- discipline is practice
--- the more you practice the more comfortable it becomes
--- best way to begin is to see yourself as a disciplined person
--- someone who does the things that should be doing, not the things he shouldn't be doing
--- eg: acquire skills, intellectual, craftwork, ...

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