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Another made up malady. People are lazy. Period.

Cal is so hard-core, he and his wife both sleep on bamboo!

It's good to know the bestseller books struggle with the same focus problem like me. Thanks for this interview!

I agree with him: Get the basics first. Ex-Google-CEO once said: "A fool with a tool is still a fool".

Woo,, Scott.... Both my favs<3

Anyone can summarize the 5 rules for me

17:55 there is a tool like that. One to rule them all, named Notion

Great stuff! However, the last timestamp - active recall - is misplaced, I believe.

Hello professor Newport how do you pick your books and do you finish one before you start the other? Thanks!

every mode works with good connections 😊

"Monk mode morning." Yes.

Killer duo. Grew up reading both these guys

It’s so unclear what constitutes monk mode - so many variations and overlaps. Really dislike this is attributed to Iman G wrongly, it way predates his videos on it. Dopamine management + habit promotion + intentional focus on specific goals.

Everyone now is unmotivated, lazy, depressed...it's the product of a horrible culture we've created of babying eveyrones delicate needs. You're sad, unmotivated, don't want to work. Tough shit. get up and get it done. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and watching youtube videos about how it's OK to be lazy because of dopamine. What a wasted generation

Yaaaay shorter videos! I know I could watch longer videos in chunks, but it just doesn't work for me like that. I forget and then I am confused where I left of. Rather watch a shorter video in one sitting! 🙏

If I go to a waterfall the last thing I'll want to do is study 😂

#adhd

Just seeing this. Let's hope your prophetic vision for the future of those platforms proves correct!

I don't know what's more depressing: The fact that this doesn't have more views or the fact that Cal is a writer and openly admitted he doesn't know who Kendrick Lamar is on his own podcast. LOL

The artist Drake is beefing with is Kendrick Lamar.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 C'mon Cal. You know......Kendrick Lamar..... One of the most respected and revered artists, storytellers, and writers of all time by the greats in nearly every genre of music..... the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper, writer, songwriter, and record producer.......The 17 time grammy award winner.......The guy who literally has the highest rated album in all of music history by nearly every major and respected music critic......The guy who is one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. The guy who made the album "To Pimp a Butterfly," which was designated as the literally theme song for the George Floyd protests. The guy who's music and writing is studied and taught at all the top music school's in the country. How are you going to know what Drake's name is , but not Kendrick Lamar's? 😂😂😂 That's like saying you know the name of the 26th acting extra in the Sandlot movie is, but don't know who Jesus/Mohammed/Buddha/Aristotle/Alexander the Great/Babe Ruth/Micheal Jordan/Steve Jobs are. C'mon Cal. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Great segment.

I care about art being good and relevant. Maybe I should care about its source, but I just don't.

Israhell has been stealing, colonizing, cleansing and separating palestinian land and people for 70 years now.

The only time I have made time blocking successful is when I am at perfect health, that is sleep, diet and overall health is perfect!

This all has to do with survival and the fact we live in a society with maximum comfort and no real threats. You take the same people and give them a baby, a massive financial opportunity or something that will trigger the need to react to survive or obtain a massive prize and motivations occurs. There's really nothing deeper

Subscribe to a newspaper lol. Who reads newspapers?

There’s a lot of evidence that Peterson is getting increasingly nuts with time. He just said on the Joe Rogan podcast: “There’s no such thing as climate”. Sorry but this really speaks for Cal’s rule of thumb regarding crazy ex-academics , even if he relativized it in the video

People go to a therapist. They shouldn't be their own therapist. It'll you can't afford it, have coffee with a friend on a regular basis.

His answer to the title question is honest and fair, even though not particularly deep: as many other things happened to Jordan at the same time as he was leaving the academia, it is hard to estimate what (univariate) effect it has on forming his current state. At the same time he avoided giving any clear assessment of the current state of Jordan’s behavior.

It's no f'in dopamine sickness BS. You DONT LIKE YOUR WORK. Find something you actually enjoy and you won't have this problem anymore.

Nothing demotivates me more than working in an office, I hate it with a passion, it is the most wasteful whimp I have ever seen.

A laptop isn't portable?

Love this. Brilliant insights. Build confidence in efficacy before depth.

In my self talk, I told my schedule to get in a nice orderly line. One problem at a time works for me.

You can apply flexibility by shifting the time blocks around on each given day (in your Google calendar). For example, I have 5 blocks scheduled for work, not just one huge block. That way, I can move them around more easily while still keeping the objective in mind to do all of that work.

Messaging for the calgorithm! Time blocking never worked for me because my 'in the zone' productivity mindset is at very unpredictable times! I know when I feel it because almost daily at some variable time I will find a very strong urge to write (which often lasts for hours without wanting to stop because its addictive), and it's been amazingly effective in rejuvenating my _deep work_ mindset. This seems to be in inverse correlation to body energy levels; I guess you could say it's cognitive motivation. Cal, do you believe the academic psychology of Cognitive Motivation is valuable or questionable? A lot of the science is wishy washy, conflated and outdated. But I love the term in the non-academic _lower case c lower case m_ sense. eg: "I feel especially creative now and have a strong desire to write down ideas, pull in related threads, develop, obsessively edit, reflect and perfect: writing / research / compose etc." The science of dopamine neurons is most famously associated with physical neurons and physical 'motiv-ation'. I find it curious that my so called 'cognitive motivation' is at odds with times if physical motivation (which is all but non-existent in my life). Perhaps the brain uses different modes for these different types of motivation. Or perhaps when in physically motivated my brain is too overloaded. I guess a motivation philosophy would do well to understand these different systems as its potential healthy for people like me to understand when direct the flow into either physical exercise or cognitive work, especially given that I feel strongly allergic to fixed routines and work best following my biology/ feeling (problematic i know! A potential recipe for endless excuses!) Perhaps it's me, elsewhere I'm very random, unfocused, unmotivated and have marked signs of ADD but undiagnosed, so it's hard to understand what's going on with the dopamine system. Vast note taking, in one long session is my superpower. I get to obsess on a singular topic and truly deep dive and play with sentence construction. I guess this is why originally, years ago, I found an affinity with cals Deep Work concept. Heavy focus is like an oasis in a life of chaos and scatty unfocused undisciplined behaviour! Except, its not tied to a grid, not even close! To a fault. Will check out your new book, I still have a couple of the others which have been inspirational. Edit: Perhaps an amazing interview would be with a neurologist who is famous for thier deep understanding of dopamine system in relation to motivation. Leveraging the neurology of dopamine re: with cognitive motivation particularly combined with *your* philosophy could be magical and _very_ fruitful for all involved :) Perhaps a neurobiologist who has experience consulting with professionals regarding productivity and motivation, who had an exceptional understanding of the dopamine system. Honestly I think that deep dive episode (hour+) could be massively popular! Wow i was just going to say hi to benefit the _calgorithm_ 😂

iit: western ideology gets unwound and tries to work its way out of relaxing and being instead of doing. Like god damn. Who told you you were here to be productive?

I’m on team Cal! Ha… as much as I’d like to have a more “natural” and more flexible way to manage my work, I would not be as successful as with your suggestions. My work is exactly as you describe, and I’m benefiting greatly from your books and methods. 😊

Just picked up Slow Productivity this weekend. I had sort of self-discovered this too working remotely during the pandemic as a software developer here in France. You put into words a lot of the things bouncing around in my head that I hadn't formulated into advice to share with others; so it's nice to have a book I can direct people to when they ask how I manage my time, priorities and consistently deliver large, high quality projects. Nice book Cal, cheers and greetings from France 🙂

While I like your points, I dislike your dishonesty. You are on RUclips, you are making videos here for a living and you even talk about podcasts. These are forms of social media. Saying you don't use social media is as such not true Rather than saying you don't use social media had you just been honest and said you are only on one or two platforms, I'd respect you a lot more.

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But RUclips is a social media platform lol

As a native of the lower peninsula of Michigan, I burst out laughing when Cal posed the idea of moving to the upper peninsula of Michigan to do remote work. I thought he was going to say Thailand or some other tropical country!

I actually didn't pay attention at all. I was on my phone

write down each email and sort by category is less friction than switching context in the moment?

as some1 who've been addicted to a thing or two in his life, im sorry to say that "an owl that looks really fun" wont get you addicted to a learning app.

3:56 lol on the voice

Isn’t RUclips social media?

I don’t know dude, all my favorite musicians were musicians their whole life…so in my opinion, not sure if this is true if you really have a hardcore passion