How To Slow Down Time & Get More Done - The Productivity Paradox | Cal Newport

[@windowsdown3684]

Jason Bateman. Man and actor and amazing advise on productivity. Cool guy

[@DearSweetMelody]

😄 I'm sure he gets that often.

[@nitin_puranik]

Just got finished watching Cal's thrilling Netflix show "Ozark". Never knew Cal is also a world-class money launderer.

[@windowsdown3684]

@@nitin_puranik big fan of dress shirts with rolled up sleeves

[@2sancap]

a young Kurt Russell.

[@CedarCoastCreative]

I started a digital media manager/marketing role for a startup back in January. It has been a little difficult, as I am the one who pretty much is deciding what I should work on every day and put out as it requires administration as well as creative work (videos/blogs etc). Your videos have definitely helped me gain perspective and not be so hard on myself as to how productive I am. I feel as though I have to unlearn the hustle culture that has been engrained into us throughout my educational career as well as what has just been fed to us growing up in a culture such as the US. It is certainly a process. But good to see and know others are talking about it as well.

[@QueefMcGeesHouse]

It's a startup, as long as you don't totally drop the ball you'll be fine. Don't put so much pressure on yourself.

[@DearSweetMelody]

Split was great. Be sure to check out 'Speak No Evil' (in theaters). James is amazing in that as well. 😃

[@lemontreewrites]

This was fascinating thank you

[@happytofu5]

I check my emails twice a day. In the morning, I go through it, answer if the answer just takes up to a minute, and otherwise create a task. In the evenimg, I check if there is something urgent to answer to. Twice a week, I take extra time to write long answers or reach out to people. That way, I can keep my email time relatively short every day. It still sucks every day, but at least it sucks only for 15-20 Minutes.

[@scoruja]

How is someone writing into this show with 20k unread emails, asking if it can work as a task list 😂

[@andrewbillings198]

Like writing into the Huberman podcast saying "I believe in a cookies-only diet" 😂

[@patrolduty8715]

99.9% of those emails probably are junk emails.

[@xevifoo]

Like writing into the DailyStoic podcast asking for how to punch people “stoically” (Excuse the silly thread, to funny to pass 😅)

[@Learned333]

Like calling into Echart Tolle The Power of Now and desiring to constantly live in my past glory days of high school football in my mind.

[@raginald7mars408]

When I start Doing Any Thing “TIME” Races ever faster away when I STOP Time Stops

[@2sancap]

To the caller Sara, you are in your 30s, that is not a reason to not go with your passion. There are many opportunities for 'hobby' musicians now, small local groups, you can join or even create a small classical musician group and perform. In my city there are many and they are performing all the time at various venues. You don't have to look at it as just joining an orchestra as the only option.

[@amenabegum4044]

Thank you

[@MansiKurhade]

Sir, What is your motive behind making KZbin videos?? What is your motive behind helping us and solving our problems? Also helping us make your time waste and you can use this time for your own growth.

[@x_xousik]

hello sir, recently read the book deep work, inspired by your work, and working on myself to change the way I do things, heard about the new book the slow productivity. will be soon reading it too !! thank you for your amazing work

[@mariea2277]

I vote you for president 😂😂😂

[@Zwttrn]

It’s incredible that anyone reviewing a productivity book in 2024 would have the view/argument in the lines of “if the employer is paying you to work 8 hours, you have to work every minute of the 8 hours or else you’re stealing from them”.

[@grinmanpotato]

for knowledge work, this is clear stupidity on the employers end and even worse when they start installing employee monitoring software to track employees’ “productivity” (which according to them is mouse clicks and keyboard taps on “productive” applications) these systems can easily be gamed and doesn’t solve the underlying problem of constantly guilting people of “I am paying you to work each hour” when they don’t fully know the definition of productivity in the knowledge economy in the first place. i think they ought to read slow productivity.

[@IshratJahan-dh3ev]

@@grinmanpotatowould it be better to work on commission based rather than hour based? I see the logic behind it being stupid to expect employees to work 8 hours. But I also see how it can open up many ways for employees to be lazy and not caring about the work at all.

[@grinmanpotato]

@@IshratJahan-dh3ev i'm not famililar with a commsion based, so i cannot give my opinion on that. with knowledge work, i think that the motivation needs to be mainly intrinsic rather than extrinsic (all things considered) and knowledge workers need autonomy to be able to do the task on their own because they predominanlty own the means of production. a knowledge worker being measured and told how to do their job by managers who know less than is, in my opinion a receipie for disaster. if they are lazy and do not care about the work at all, they should strongly consider getting another job...

[@nate1394]

Isn't time blocking an effort to make creative work like cranking?

[@Learned333]

I like Cal, however all the "job" stuff I don't relate to anymore. It'd be nice if he was 50/50 job/entrepreneur (one person entrepreneur), but he's more like 80/20 job/entrepreneur. And a lot of times the books he writes are this 80/20 too. That's just the audience he has attracted and services, I guess.

[@thisiscarib]

Jason Bateman vibes

[@new_skyspirit]

First to comment 😁.... But still a lazy person 😞

[@patrickmorency]

Should have been slower

[@johnvienna3422]

I'm gonna tell my boss that if he finds me watching movies on a Wednesday morning it's because I need a psychological boost. I'm sure he'll understand.

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

Most of this stuff is just working the way you would have before cell phones and the internet. It's sad that this now needs to be mentioned, and more than a little sick that people will be paid for saying it. In fact, I don't think I've ever read anything of his that didn't amount of widely available motivational cliches and basic workflow discipline. And I have read a few of his books on the off chance that they would be helpful.

[@magdacepeda]

A whole generation that does not know how was life before internet is entering the workforce. I think this is useful for them, and for anyone who got sucked into the highly prevalent pseudoproductivity labor culture.

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

@@magdacepedaYes, that is my point. It is remedial and entirely due to a culture obsessed with diversion and novelty. Of course it’s useful if you don’t know any better, just like learning how to make the rabbit go in the hole is if you’ve never tied your shoes before. It does not cease to be a depressing testament to the insufficiencies of the day.