Cal Newport is a computer science professor and a New York Times bestselling author who writes about the impact of technology on society, and the struggle to work and live deeply in a world increasingly mired in digital distractions. On this podcast, he answers questions from his readers and offers advice about cultivating focus, productivity, and meaning amidst the noise that pervades our lives.
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episode 6: Ep. 6: Balancing the Personal and Professional, Unreasonable Email Expectations, and Avoiding Hard Creative Work | DEEP QUESTIONS
In this episode of Deep Questions I answer reader questions on balancing the professional and the personal, unreasonable email expectations and using the internet to escape hard creative work. I also play some question roulette and attempt a lightening round in which I answer as many question as possible in a single minute.
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Full list of topics tackled in today’s episode:
* Separating personal and professional when planning.
* Inducing a sense of urgency.
* Balancing work and relationships in lockdown.
* Getting into graduate school with bad grades.
* Starting a productivity journey.
* Resetting expectations about email response time.
* Tracking health metrics.
* Finding blog readers without social media.
* Lightening Round:
- how much deep work can fit in a day?
- what is minimum deep work block length?
- what are tips for overcoming resistance?
- what do you do during your downtime?
* A pastor seeking depth when on call.
* The origin of my discipline.
* A novelist struggling to work.
* Managing reading.
* On schools and the deep life.
As always, thank you to listener Bit Holiday for the original theme music and transition sound effect (bitholiday.net).