How To Stop Wasting Time: The 5-Step Productivity System To Organize Your Life | Cal Newport

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We talk a lot on this show about remaining organized in a digital workplace that drowns us with incoming obligations. In this episode, Cal focuses on the key question of how you get *started* toward this goal. What do you do, in other words, on day one of your quest to find depth amidst the shallows.

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0:00 Getting organized in a distracted world
39:28 How do I get more excited about my work plans?
47:34 How do I get my classmates to get better about time management?
53:54 How should I organize my deep work blocks?
58:50 How do I account for contingencies in my quarterly plan?
59:31 When does Cal find time to read?
1:04:44 How to train Deep Focus muscles
1:10:50 Investing concentrated time
1:17:54 The 5 books Cal read in November 2023

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