Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2024-03-04
Books mentioned on Slow Productivity: Cal Newport On How To Escape Burnout, Do Your Best Work & Achieve More By Doing Less
Cal Newport, a bestselling author and Computer Science professor at Georgetown University, advocates for a slower approach to productivity that enhances work-life balance and reduces burnout.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Deep Work
Deep Work by Cal Newport is a productivity guide that outlines rules for achieving focused success in a distracted world.
Recommended“Cal's book deep work changed my life no exaggeration and now with his latest offering slow productivity”
Where to get it
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Slow Productivity
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport is a modern guide that offers a practical framework for achieving meaningful accomplishments without succumbing to chronic burnout.
Recommended“and now with his latest offering slow productivity he has much to say about the suboptimal ways many of us navigate our daily lives”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Deep Work
“my bestselling book deep work has never been a bestseller”
Own book A World Without Email
“because this is our internal war is I wrote a world without email and then he wrote this New York Times oped”
Own book Deep Work
“I wrote about that in deep work how and people got mad about this but I think there's a kernel of Truth in it”
Own book Finding Ultra
“um there was a line that I had in Finding Ultra my coach when I was training for these Ultra endurance races would say to me”
Own book So Good They Can't Ignore You
“so then I wrote a book that was that first idea hard cover book was called so good they can't ignore you based off of the Steve Martin quote”
Own book Finding Ultra
“my books Finding Ultra voicing change in the plant power way as well as the plant power meal planner”