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Gain Control
This routine should be completed once over the course of 4 weeks to gain control.
Implement systems to gain control over your professional and personal obligations. This includes multi-scale planning for work, household capture and planning, and identifying areas to automate or curtail. π
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Cal Newport talks about overhauling your life in Episode 263 of the Deep Questions podcast.
Too many people believe that the New Year is the right time to undertake major improvements to your life. In this episode, Cal argues that it is instead right now, at the beginning of fall, that is the best time to turn over a new page. He lays out a detailed 4-month journey through the deep stack that will have you done with a major overhaul by the time everyone else is just getting started early next year.
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Listen to Episode 263 HERE
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Episode Timestamps:
- 0:00 How can I reinvent my life in 4 months?
- 32:40 Cal talks about Cozy Earth and Shopify
- 37:28 How can I ease into Cal's more advanced time management strategies?
- 40:59 Can unstructured work be a part of the deep life?
- 45:12 How can I stop changing my mind about what I want to do with my life?
- 53:02 Can I pursue the deep life if I need a job?
- 57:23 How do you pursue the deep life with depression?
- 1:03:25 Cal talks about My Body Tutor and Policy Genius
- 1:06:49 Cover Reveal for Slow Productivity
Connect with Cal Newport:
- π΄ Visit Cal's Blog
- π΄ Check out Cal's books
- π΄ The Deep Life
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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