Notities#568: Cal Newport — The Eternal Pursuit of Craftsmanship, the Deep Life, Slow Productivity, and a 30-Day Digital Minimalism Challenge
The Tim Ferriss Show
In aflevering #568 van The Tim Ferriss Show bespreekt Cal Newport het belang van vakmanschap, een diep leven, en trage productiviteit. Hij benadrukt ook de waarde van seizoensgebonden werk en hoe actie inzicht kan brengen in religie en andere aspecten van het leven. De aflevering bevat praktische inzichten en strategieën voor persoonlijke ontwikkeling.
Speaker 1: about not having open loops, Speaker 0: sorry to interrupt, but I will do you So do you read that every morning? Is this like your boot up sequence. Speaker 1: It's internalized now, but it's written down and my listeners do the same thing like we, we put it in a director, you call it root and you put all your planning documents in that directory and you don't have to look at it every day once you internalize it pretty quickly. But just knowing it's there and you can assess yourself as am I following that or am I not? And it's a binary and then everything else comes out of it. So we call it a route because then the (Time 1:02:16)
Speaker 1: as a professor, there's a seasonality that's built into my work, which I wish I could be widely replicated. Speaker 1: Everyone who runs their own businesses entrepreneurial where you have some flexibility. I think you should integrate seasonality and into what you do. I have a big believer in seasonality in all scales by the way, busy and not busy. Parts of your day, busier and non busier days of the week. Busier and non busier months in the season. I (Time 1:06:31)
Note: Integrate seasonality, also in your day
Speaker 1: affiliated. She used to be a nun and had a bad experience and left the catholic church, but he has his magisterial book called The case for God. And long story short, she said, we don't understand religion today and by today she means after the enlightenment because we think about it as the ascent to empirically validated truths to be religious means that here's this thing that this happened, this person did this and I agree that this happened, this is true, but I don't quote unquote believe that or what have you. And your whole argument is like through all of the history of religion, it's actually a commitment to action and is after you do the action that the insight comes that you start by doing the things and then later that gains you revelation. That's where you actually start to gain insight and (Time 1:49:40)
Note: After your action the insight comes