Deep Questions with Cal Newport27 Heinä 2020

Ep. 13: Where I Work, Convincing Students to Disconnect, and Applying Deep Work to Deep Social Problems | DEEP QUESTIONS

In this episode of Deep Questions I answer reader questions on where I work (hint: an absurd number of different places), convincing students to disconnect, and applying deep work to deep social problems, among many other topics.I need more audio questions for my habit tune-up mini-episodes. You can submit your audio questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/CalNewportI will be sending out a new request for text questions to my mailing list soon. You can sign up for my mailing list at calnewport.com.Please consider subscribing (which helps iTunes rankings) and leaving a review or rating (which helps new listeners consider the show).Here’s the full list of topics tackled in today’s episode along with the timestamps: * My (many) deep work environments [1:50] * Law firms are deep work disasters [6:42] * On the deepness of business development efforts [13:03] * Deep work for high school teachers [14:17] * The danger of using random masters degree to "fix" your professional life [17:04] * On becoming a great thinker (in graduate school) [18:26] * Question Roulette: coping with mission failure. [20:12] * My book writing toolbox [24:38] * The myth of the necessity of social media for professional success (rant alert!) [26:56] * Getting students to disconnect [31:19] * On social media and democratization movements [34:48] * The right order to teach my books [39:54] * Moving past repeated failures to minimize technology use [44:48] * Finding motivation to get things done (sermon alert!) [44:48] * Deep work on deep social problems [52:37] Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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