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

“You’ll be able to’t be busy and frenetic and bouncing off the partitions with 100 initiatives in the event you’re obsessed about doing one thing very well.”

— Cal Newport

Cal Newport is a professor of pc science at Georgetown College, the place he’s additionally a founding member of the Middle for Digital Ethics. Along with his tutorial work, Newport is a New York Instances bestselling creator who writes for a basic viewers concerning the intersection of know-how, productiveness, and tradition. His books have bought hundreds of thousands 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 ebook is Sluggish Productiveness: The Misplaced Artwork of Accomplishment With out Burnout.

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Need to hear the final time Cal Newport was on this present? Hear right here to our dialog during which we mentioned classes from Steve Martin, residing the deep life, how Cal secured his first ebook 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 want, contemplating the non secular as an train of meticulous craft and creation, Cal’s 30-day digital minimalism declutter, and rather more.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• Join with Cal Newport:

Web site | Weblog | YouTube

• Sluggish Productiveness: The Misplaced Artwork of Accomplishment With out Burnout by Cal Newport | Amazon
• The Deep Questions Podcast
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Expertise Trump Ardour within the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport | Amazon
• Deep Work: Guidelines for Centered Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport | Amazon
• Digital Minimalism: Selecting a Centered Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport | Amazon
• A World With out Electronic mail: Discover Focus and Rework the Approach You Work Eternally by Cal Newport | Amazon
• Cal Newport — The Everlasting Pursuit of Craftsmanship, the Deep Life, Sluggish Productiveness, and a 30-Day Digital Minimalism Problem | The Tim Ferriss Present #568
• Scent of a Girl | Prime Video
• Audio-Technica ATH-M50xSTS-USB StreamSet Streaming Headset | Amazon
• It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly | The New Yorker
• Standing As much as Expertise | Cal Newport
• Steve Jobs iPhone 2007 Presentation | YouTube
• The Social Media Conundrum and Teen Psychological Well being | WCAP Counseling
• Stop Social Media. Your Profession Might Depend upon It. | The New York Instances
• Don’t Stop Social Media. Put It to Work for Your Profession As a substitute. | The New York Instances
• 1,000 True Followers by Kevin Kelly | The Technium
• Amish Research: Expertise | Younger Middle for Anabaptist and Pietist Research at Elizabethtown Faculty
• After 60 Years, Scientists Uncover How Thalidomide Produced Start Defects | Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute
• Termite Fishing | The Jane Goodall Institute USA
• Peter Gregory “Cicadas” (Clip) | Silicon Valley
• Sensible TV | Wikipedia
• Born Standing Up: A Comedian’s Life by Steve Martin | Amazon
• It’s Time to Embrace Sluggish Productiveness by Cal Newport | The New Yorker
• The Dartmouth Jack-o-Lantern
• Seth’s Weblog
• Now Taking part in | Oppenheimer
• The 4-Hour Physique: An Unusual Information to Speedy Fats Loss, Unbelievable Intercourse, and Turning into Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks | Tim Ferriss
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Stay Anyplace, and Be a part of the New Wealthy by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• Electronic mail E-newsletter by Tim Ferriss | 5-Bullet Friday
• The Studying Annex | Wikipedia
• Jamie Foxx on Exercise Routines, Success Habits, and Untold Hollywood Tales | The Tim Ferriss Present #124
• Jamie Foxx Half 2 – Bringing the Thunder | The Tim Ferriss Present #167
• The Energy Legislation: Enterprise Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby | Amazon
• Extra Cash Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby | Amazon
• The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie | Amazon
• The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Information: Mathematical Rules of Pure Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton | Amazon
• In The Heights (Stage) | Lin-Manuel Miranda
• An American Musical | Hamilton
• Freestyle Love Supreme | Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Georgia O’Keeffe: Lake George Historical past | Lake George
• Uraninite: A Radioactive Mineral and Ore of Uranium | Geology
• Sistine Chapel | Vatican Museums
• The Yr in Quiet Quitting | The New Yorker
• On Working an Workplace Like a Manufacturing facility | Cal Newport
• Implement a Kanban Card System | GembaDocs
• Alex Gendler: The Fantasy of Sisyphus | TED-Ed
• To Make Electronic mail Simpler We Should Make it Tougher | Cal Newport
• Filling the Void: Ideas on Studying and Karma | Tim Ferriss
• Data Staff are Dangerous at Working (and Right here’s What to Do About It…) | Cal Newport
• An Exhausting Yr in (and Out of) the Workplace | The New Yorker
• The Steve Martin Technique: A Grasp Comic’s Recommendation for Turning into Well-known | Cal Newport
• Peel Exhausting-Boiled Eggs with out Peeling | Tim Ferriss
• Pores and skin a Watermelon Celebration Trick | Mark Rober
• Shed Your Cash Taboos | Derek Sivers
• The Andromeda Pressure by Michael Crichton | Amazon
• The Agency: A Novel by John Grisham | Amazon
• A Time to Kill: A Jake Brigance Novel by John Grisham | Amazon
• Ought to This Assembly Have Been an Electronic mail? | Cal Newport
• Steady Partial Consideration | Linda Stone
• Your Digital HQ | Slack
• Free On-line Appointment Scheduling Software program | Calendly
• Slack Is the Proper Software for the Flawed Option to Work | The New Yorker
• Develop Your Attain | Zoom
• Have a Extra Productive Yr | The New Yorker
• Ouroboros | Wikipedia
• Fordism | Wikipedia
• The Efficient Government: The Definitive Information to Getting the Proper Issues Finished by Peter Drucker | Amazon
• The Curse of the Diaeresis | The New Yorker
• Feral Tremendous Pigs Are Elevating Hell on the Canadian Prairies | The Economist
• The New York Instances Constructing | Wikipedia
• The Girl Who Spent 5 Hundred Days in a Cave | The New Yorker
• Right here’s the Actual Cause Yakuza Members Chop off Their Pinky Fingers | VT
• The Paris Assessment
• Ezra Klein Leaves Vox for The New York Instances | The New York Instances
• Jiro Desires of Sushi | Prime Video
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economic system of the Mass Media | Noam Chomsky
• Moneyball: The Artwork of Successful an Unfair Sport by Michael Lewis | Amazon
• The Weekly Dish by Andrew Sullivan | Substack
• The Unbelievable Shrinking Podcast Trade | Semafor
• The Digital Office Is Designed to Carry You Down | The New York Instances
• Intro to Sluggish Productiveness (RE: John McPhee) | Cal Newport
• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Letters to Shareholders | Peter Fisk
• “Seven-Minute Abs!” (Clip) | There’s One thing About Mary

SHOW NOTES

• [06:14] Unforced Errors: The Web Story.
• [09:41] Techno-selectionism.
• [18:06] Why YouTube and podcasts aren’t splendid bedfellows.
• [23:03] Amish know-how and Steve Martin.
• [28:07] What prompted Cal to write down Sluggish Productiveness?
• [31:35] Turning 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 folks 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] Modern 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 downside 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’ll be able to’t be busy and frenetic and bouncing off the partitions with 100 initiatives in the event 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 best way your life unfolds.”
— Cal Newport

“You’ve received to simply not need to get began till you may’t assist however get began. And I feel that’s irritating for lots of the web era as a result of it takes a extremely very long time.”
— Cal Newport

“There was no hustle tradition. That’s the attention-grabbing factor. While you return and research folks producing issues of actual worth, utilizing their mind, they had been good and so they had been devoted and so they labored actually laborious, however they didn’t hustle and so they 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 executed. It was a extra pure variation. That they had much less on their plate on the similar time, and so they glued all of it collectively by obsessing over high quality.”
— Cal Newport

“There’s nothing extra quixotic than the overburdened employee who’s making an attempt to not say no, however get the one who’s giving them the work to voluntarily comply with not give them the work. It by no means works. If somebody’s making an attempt to get you to do one thing, and also you’re like, ‘Nicely, I suppose I might, 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. Nicely, 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’ll be able to cost extra for the providers you provide, so it’s not zero sum. It’s extra win-win than the rest.”
— Cal Newport

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

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

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