IN-DEPTH: Focus like a Nobel Prize Winner (w/ Brian Keating)

I'm Cal Newport and this is In Depth, a semi-regular series in which I talk to interesting people about the quest to cultivate a deep life. Today's episode is brought to you by our presenting sponsor, Dunn Daily. I'm a huge fan of this product because it provides you with both a system and daily coaching to implement the type of productivity ideas I often talk about. I'll tell you more about that later. For now, I want to talk about today's guest, which is Dr.

Brian Keating. Now, Keating is a big shot scientist. He's currently the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He's also the principal investigator of the Simons Observatory. He wrote this cool book back in 2018 that was called Losing the Nobel Prize.

It's a book about The research he was doing, they were, they were measuring the signature of the spark that started the Big Bang. And they had this really exciting signal and people were all whispering in their ears, like, you're gonna win the Nobel for this. This is a big deal. And they found an artifact in the data that sort of uh ruined it.

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