Cal Newport: The Secrets of Slow Productivity

Hello and welcome back to Deep Dive, the podcast where it's my immense pleasure to sit down with entrepreneurs, academics, creators, authors, and other inspiring people, and we find out how they got to where they are and the strategies and tools we can learn from them to help build a life that we love. What you're about to hear is a wonderful, if I say so myself, conversation between me and the amazing Cal Newport. This was the first time Cal and I were meeting in real life. We've been internet buddies for a while. We have blurbed each other's books.

Have we blurbed each other? Yep. We have blurbed each other's books, and he has recently released an absolute banger of a book called Slow Productivity, The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout. In this conversation, we talk about the concept of deep work, we talk about productivity principles that overwhelmed people can use to apply to their life, not just if you're an entrepreneur, but also if you have a normal corporate day job or if you're a student, for example, and we talk a lot about how the concepts of slow productivity can help us have more of a chill relationship with life. But also, weirdly, be more productive because we're not trying to do all of this stuff and be super overwhelmed with all the things that we're doing, but instead taking a slower, more relaxed approach to meaningful accomplishment.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this interview with Cal Newport as much as I did. Cal Newport, welcome to the podcast. Hey, it's good to see you. We meet in person for the first time. I know.

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