How To Change Your Life In 30 Days With Reverse Goal Setting - Try This Before 2024 | Cal Newport

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  • Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
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    Cal Newport talks about accomplishing hard goals in Episode 275 of the Deep Questions podcast.
    How you accomplish important goals: The type that can transform your life in remarkable ways? In this episode, Cal breaks down the common mistakes we make in pursuing hard goals and then details the reverse goal setting strategy he has found to work much more consistently.
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    0:00 How do I follow through on transformative goals?
    40:21 How do I prepare for an upcoming change to my professional life?
    47:37 How do I schedule abundant free time?
    51:42 Should I feel guilty that I’m so efficient I barely work?
    58:21 How do I avoid doing too much?
    1:05:22 How do I time block work of unknown durations?
    1:11:30 Pursuing a career with two different paths
    1:19:29 Joe Rogan and The Rock Talk Passion
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    About Cal Newport:
    Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University. In addition to his academic research, he writes about the intersection of digital technology and culture. Cal's particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives.
    Cal is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including, most recently, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. He's also the creator of The Time-Block Planner.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 52

  • @darrenrubendall3020
    @darrenrubendall3020 3 місяці тому +1

    He’s telling the unvarnished truth. There are no shortcuts. Kind of rare these days.

  • @RobGehring
    @RobGehring 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for the golden nuggets Cal!

  • @sarahbarton4872
    @sarahbarton4872 7 місяців тому +2

    Love this!

  • @britneeg
    @britneeg 7 місяців тому +6

    I came from the podcast just to see the handwriting 14:55

  • @niky5223
    @niky5223 6 місяців тому

    33:16 yes! It all takes lots of efforts and courage. That's how you enjoy delay gratification later on and that satisfaction that never leaves.

  • @garrybrown3165
    @garrybrown3165 7 місяців тому +24

    Dr. Newport, your method is similar to one of the keys I had to learn (the HARD way) when taking organic chemistry: in order to solve exam questions given a starting compound and a final product. You have to memorize the specific reactions, cofactors and conditions and when faced with the exam question work BACKWARD from the final product to starting compound.

  • @johnlesko5495
    @johnlesko5495 7 місяців тому +1

    Great concept. We also individually design our Fin Ed "with the end in mind."

  • @robinashley9646
    @robinashley9646 7 місяців тому +4

    I learned backwards planning in the military. As a teacher, I start with assessment goals and work backwards in my lesson planning.

    • @AtHost98
      @AtHost98 4 місяці тому

      It sounds so obvious but i wouldnt have thought about it.

  • @goldeagle6391
    @goldeagle6391 7 місяців тому +7

    I started my 30 day digital declutter, lets see how it will go. thank you for helping people like us.

  • @guilhermecooke9506
    @guilhermecooke9506 2 місяці тому

    Hahahahhaahaha laughing out loud about "The professional font" joke... I really like all The subtle and ironic jokes you make, makes the already very interesting content even more attracting! Thank you for so many precious teachings!

  • @imaginaryobligation951
    @imaginaryobligation951 Місяць тому

    It's like The One Thing

  • @everythingpolicy
    @everythingpolicy 7 місяців тому +5

    Curious to know what book Dr Newport is talking about at 1:11:08. The one which recounts how mathematicians won the fields medal.

  • @hopelessatusernames
    @hopelessatusernames 7 місяців тому

    Would be interested to see Dan John as a guest on the pod, 'easy strength' as a strength-training protocol seems like a good fit. Think Tim Ferris mentioned recently he planned to invite him. I always think about Dan's phrase when I stop doing something I know I should -- 'It worked so well I stopped doing it!'

  • @Ddt71
    @Ddt71 7 місяців тому +2

    The next Tony Robbins

  • @cabin5
    @cabin5 2 місяці тому

    Sounds like dynamic programming.

  • @aldenho2561
    @aldenho2561 7 місяців тому

    Cal when you hit 100 million subs would you change your channel name to MrCal or MrNewport?

  • @BaconTrades
    @BaconTrades 7 місяців тому

    “… and then it’s Hemsworth time ..” 😂

  • @daisysaran
    @daisysaran 7 місяців тому +1

    can this be applied for promotion to associate professor?

    • @Heyu7her3
      @Heyu7her3 7 місяців тому +1

      If there's milestones that you must hit, yes. But a lot of that is also contingent on external factors _(ie. your colleagues)._

    • @daisysaran
      @daisysaran 7 місяців тому

      @@Heyu7her3 yes there are many milestones to hit, but it also depend on the internal and external panel, i think.

  • @suenigoghossian5950
    @suenigoghossian5950 6 місяців тому +1

    Noblesse oblige 😅

    • @anniekate76
      @anniekate76 2 місяці тому

      I hope no French people were listening 😂

  • @shoppingpriority
    @shoppingpriority 7 місяців тому

    Now mr beast had reached 214 million subs... ⚡⚡

  • @raginald7mars408
    @raginald7mars408 7 місяців тому +2

    … as a German Biologist -
    This is about Phase Transitions
    The world changes with lightning speed
    And we are sessile, immobile
    Clutching to past moments
    Creating Learning disabilities
    It is training Phase Transitions
    Like learning another language
    Totally immerse in the process
    This adds new Dimensions to your personality
    It is the most Mental Band Width you can achieve
    The range of Motion in Function
    This makes it so difficult
    And uncomfortable…
    this is about the Ranking of Values
    What is the Top Value
    How much do You value your TOP Value
    Do You stick with it…
    Or are sticks lowering your Values

  • @poojachopra789
    @poojachopra789 7 місяців тому +2

    How does your life change in 30 days with this? I don’t think I’m following

    • @nakata4713
      @nakata4713 6 місяців тому +1

      The titles and thumbnails have been going overboard lately, but it's probably just the channel's strategy to break through the choke point between 100k and 1M subscribers.

  • @user-yf8oy7hb1r
    @user-yf8oy7hb1r 7 місяців тому

    Why is it about impressing other people? Getting Notably in shape or what people would notice? In the end people will judge you anyway. Don't live your life impressing others, live your life impressing yourself.

    • @Taekwontips
      @Taekwontips 3 місяці тому

      That's mostly why people do it, to feel good and impress themselves

    • @setapartt
      @setapartt 2 місяці тому

      Impress God that’s the most important thing you can do

  • @SceneDogsChannel
    @SceneDogsChannel 7 місяців тому +9

    I like Cal, but in these videos it always feels like he's saying things that lack nuance (at best) or are disingenuous (at worst).
    1. Who is saying that following a checklist makes success easier? (And how is this that different from how improvement happens in any field - working backwards amounts to building a checklist...)
    2. The example of algorithmic lottery rings...*weird*. He makes a point about "wandering" with no idea of what the endpoint looks like, but how is "being so good you can't be ignored" not an example of participating in an algorithmic lottery? He also has a whole hypothesis on how you don't need to define your career at the outset because "adjacent" possibilities open up as you improve - how is this not an example akin to the one he rebukes, by the way, of the person pursuing a grad degree without an explicitly clear destination? He opens a whole book championing successful people who did not have clear destinations...
    And that's just some of it. It always feels like he has to clarify his terms better - or else sound like his thesis' are naive...

    • @MonaWazir
      @MonaWazir 7 місяців тому +1

      So true

    • @MonaWazir
      @MonaWazir 7 місяців тому +1

      The same thoughts I had hearing this video

    • @Heyu7her3
      @Heyu7her3 7 місяців тому +2

      I think the difference is leaving room for chance, kinda like assuming there will be randomness in a complex system. Maybe?

    • @SceneDogsChannel
      @SceneDogsChannel 7 місяців тому +3

      @@Heyu7her3 I agree that that's a lot of it. But I feel like he makes the argument from the most favorable assumptions. I think it's alarming, too, that so many young people think YT success is a foregone conclusion (or at least more likely than it is), but if he was so inclined he could probably make an argument for "career capital" and "adjacent opportunities" opening up to those who pursue editing, marketing, social media skills etc. in a digital world. I think the fact that he never leaves the door open to possibilities outside of the ones he prescribes are what make one raise a flag.

    • @SisypheanRoller
      @SisypheanRoller 7 місяців тому +4

      In my opinion, the simple truth is that having a clear end goal in mind before you begin is a fantasy. Nobody has that. If you could, you would need:
      1) perfect knowledge of the world state today, and
      2) perfect prediction of the way the world would evolve given that you act on the plans to reach your desired goal state.
      Anyone with half a brain can see that this is a fantasy because we are all making decisions in the face of uncertainty and nothing is ever guaranteed. Most of self help can be summarised as a healthy attitude combined with a realistic self-assessment leading to good expected outcomes.
      If you're unlucky, you could end up dead tomorrow from some unexpected accident, but that doesn't help you get anywhere so you might as well focus on progressing. That's literally all you need to know. The rest is details.

  • @huntsail3727
    @huntsail3727 Місяць тому

    Ok, I finally had the time to 'block' to listen to one of these long form videos. Lot's of good stuff. However, I pulled the plug at 1:15:53.
    Why? Advertising, sponsors, book plugs, etc. I get it. No, long form videos without them. But like the new NFL or the new NBA this format is not for me.
    The books are great. The short form videos are good. But, I am going to pass on this format.

  • @danjaworsky
    @danjaworsky 2 місяці тому

    Hi Cal! Wanted to thank you for ruining my life 🎉