The "Deep Dive on How does Cal organizes his life" is extremely valuable because I think this is one of the biggest issues as to why people don't achieve their goals because of so much information coming to you everyday in different categories and types of tasks that it gets difficult trying to process and sort them out. For me i know what i want to do but organising and sorting information and tasks has been difficult. Thankyou Cal.
I've spent the last 14 months on a break, immersing into designing (our at least thinking about : ) my next steps. Some (OK, alot) of the time may have been better spent, had I had systems in place. THANK YOU, Cal, for this master Core System of yours that you shared. I look forward to incorporating it into my life.
This is so helpful. I have always struggled with establishing a stable system that actually works for me and produces tangible results. Listening to Cal explaining his system in such detail provided me with important insights into why things didn't work out for me. Thanks a lot.
The one part that so far I haven't managed to make work is a Trello setup with a "board for each role". I agree that some sort of divide-and-conquer approach is needed so that you're never looking at a huge list of unrelated tasks at once. I just feel for my work there isn't such a neat separation into roles like you'd have as a professor, and so then the individual boards just end up becoming unwieldy.
I have kind of played with the trello boards. I more use OneNote for outlining my core documents and have links to those areas where I have a small document/information on that role, my routine, and build the trello board link into that area where it's more process based. For me, the biggest issue was making it a routine. But this way, I used the boards when I was working on things for that specific role, and it doesn't get buried in the part of my brain that can't remember this stuff.
This makes a lot of sense (Cal's "Core Documents) but also feels a little like a Rube Goldberg machine. However, perhaps this level of complexity is "just right" for Cal. I've experimented with similar ideas and have, for now, settled on a handful of metrics I track (self-monitoring), a few rules I try to follow (~ 3 to 5), and a GTD-style Weekly Review. So far, this has been good enough.
Would you use moleskine for this or a digital planner like one note etc? Of course calendar should be used I wonder regarding the actual life schema you’ve described
Nice to see your face. May I suggest to move/zoom out the camera a bit and let us the see the desk. The framing is uncomfortably close for talking head style video.
What do you use for personal tasks? It sounded like between this and the time management video you use this mostly for work related. I am curious what the personal life task/ life management looks like.
I just use a regular sheet of lined paper for personal/home tasks. I tried having a Trello board for this too but it was too overwhelming. Now I just use trello for work.
completed till 30:48, first time, I am listening Cal's podcast, I think, Cal you should focus on "How to do", not only "what to do". for me it was not deep. Thanks.
I am a big Cal Newport fan of his books but his podcast are not very understandable. Did anyone follow his system of how he organizes his life? It made no sense to me. If you listen to Ali Abdaal he clearly explains which software he uses and how he applies them to organize his life.
The "Deep Dive on How does Cal organizes his life" is extremely valuable because I think this is one of the biggest issues as to why people don't achieve their goals because of so much information coming to you everyday in different categories and types of tasks that it gets difficult trying to process and sort them out. For me i know what i want to do but organising and sorting information and tasks has been difficult. Thankyou Cal.
I've spent the last 14 months on a break, immersing into designing (our at least thinking about : ) my next steps. Some (OK, alot) of the time may have been better spent, had I had systems in place. THANK YOU, Cal, for this master Core System of yours that you shared. I look forward to incorporating it into my life.
This is so helpful. I have always struggled with establishing a stable system that actually works for me and produces tangible results. Listening to Cal explaining his system in such detail provided me with important insights into why things didn't work out for me. Thanks a lot.
The one part that so far I haven't managed to make work is a Trello setup with a "board for each role". I agree that some sort of divide-and-conquer approach is needed so that you're never looking at a huge list of unrelated tasks at once. I just feel for my work there isn't such a neat separation into roles like you'd have as a professor, and so then the individual boards just end up becoming unwieldy.
I have kind of played with the trello boards. I more use OneNote for outlining my core documents and have links to those areas where I have a small document/information on that role, my routine, and build the trello board link into that area where it's more process based. For me, the biggest issue was making it a routine. But this way, I used the boards when I was working on things for that specific role, and it doesn't get buried in the part of my brain that can't remember this stuff.
This makes a lot of sense (Cal's "Core Documents) but also feels a little like a Rube Goldberg machine. However, perhaps this level of complexity is "just right" for Cal. I've experimented with similar ideas and have, for now, settled on a handful of metrics I track (self-monitoring), a few rules I try to follow (~ 3 to 5), and a GTD-style Weekly Review. So far, this has been good enough.
I have a similar system as Cal! A lot of these concepts clicks with me.
Can you please share the document shown in the video? Perhaps add link to it in the description. It might help as a template.
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I recreated it from the video - docs.google.com/document/d/1EY1nYGHxUDnV-6ZvCFqgrNTKJZTsI7DPsnHpYPMyPXQ/edit?usp=sharing
@@prasoon-pankaj thanks a lot
@@prasoon-pankaj I was going to ask the same question about the document. Thank you Prasoon.
@@prasoon-pankaj oh man, come on. You're a really legend on RUclips comments🙌
On book 3 of yours this year. Working on my first. Thank you for all you do
Do you have this organized system in print? Is it on your blog?
Would also like to have a copy
Did he already do a video on how to do the values section? I’ve only heard him talk about it briefly. I would love some examples.
Would you use moleskine for this or a digital planner like one note etc? Of course calendar should be used I wonder regarding the actual life schema you’ve described
Nice to see your face. May I suggest to move/zoom out the camera a bit and let us the see the desk. The framing is uncomfortably close for talking head style video.
Is there a place where cal goes through what tools he uses for each part of his system?
Every time Cal says "stay deep" I always think "that's what she said."
Seeing Jesse's Royal Dornoch shirt makes me extremely jealous ;)
What do you use for personal tasks? It sounded like between this and the time management video you use this mostly for work related. I am curious what the personal life task/ life management looks like.
I just use a regular sheet of lined paper for personal/home tasks. I tried having a Trello board for this too but it was too overwhelming. Now I just use trello for work.
Could you show your obsidian, I want to know what you value in Obsidian whether it being note taking, links, graph views
I actually really like the baseball talk. Thank you!
completed till 30:48, first time, I am listening Cal's podcast, I think, Cal you should focus on "How to do", not only "what to do". for me it was not deep. Thanks.
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One thing... Change the 80000 hours link, because it's wrong. that's all folks. :)
I am a big Cal Newport fan of his books but his podcast are not very understandable. Did anyone follow his system of how he organizes his life? It made no sense to me. If you listen to Ali Abdaal he clearly explains which software he uses and how he applies them to organize his life.
I think the intent is that digital tools aren't necessary; the structure/ system is.
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