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Should I Use Notebooks More Often? (Cal’s Strategy) | Monday Advice

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

17 HOURS AGO
Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

17 HOURS AGO
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Tell me if this sounds familiar: you buy a beautiful notebook, excited by all its possibilities to help refine your thoughts and generate new insights. Then it sits unused until you forget about it. The problem is not *what* notebooks you own but instead *...

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Cal Newport addresses the common problem of buying notebooks but never using them, arguing the issue is not the notebook itself but the lack of a specific purpose. He outlines his own system of four distinct notebooks, each designed for a different cognitive task, from daily scheduling to deep technical work.
23:21
Choose notebooks for specific purposes, not just aesthetics.
32:23
Paper workouts prevent phone distraction
33:22
Gen Z has a lower IQ than millennials
38:18
Screen time is a major source of conflict
40:57
All phones are plugged in the kitchen when at home.
48:12
Uruguay's coach shortens team talks.
48:17
Attention is context-specific.

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Should I Use Notebooks More Often? (Cal’s Strategy)
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Comments on a controversial article
30:11
Statistics about smartphone bans in schools
33:18
A practical question about remote work
38:15
A question about focus and the World Cup
40:57
What Cal is up to
46:08
What Cal is reading
48:12

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Cal Newport: Do you like the idea of an old-fashioned paper notebook? I mean, a lot of people do. There's something aesthetically pleasing about a well-made notebook. There's also the excitement of anticipating the original thoughts or insights that this t...