He talks about building a life of your own choosing around the things that matter in some key buckets:
- Craft: usually your day job
- Community: volunteering, religion, family, whatever it is for you
- Constitution: mental, physical health
- Contemplation: matters of the soul (reading philosophy, following a religion if that's relevant, reflecting, etc)
Also as many people have pointed out, the hedonic treadmill is real! There's nothing wrong with wanting to grow 1% in the core aspects of your life for the rest of your life. That seems like a life well lived to be honest!
But if you can wake up every day, look at your deep life playbook that you defined, internalize your own definitions of the 4 C's and then abide by those definitions ... then you can end each day knowing that you're living a "deep life" and hopefully gain some internal silence and gratitude!
He makes some great point on deepwork and cites verifiable research. But you should be careful as he is totally against watching porn and worse favors religion.
- https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2020/04/20/cultivating-a-dee...
- https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2020/03/17/the-deep-life-som...
He talks about building a life of your own choosing around the things that matter in some key buckets:
- Craft: usually your day job - Community: volunteering, religion, family, whatever it is for you - Constitution: mental, physical health - Contemplation: matters of the soul (reading philosophy, following a religion if that's relevant, reflecting, etc)
Also as many people have pointed out, the hedonic treadmill is real! There's nothing wrong with wanting to grow 1% in the core aspects of your life for the rest of your life. That seems like a life well lived to be honest!
But if you can wake up every day, look at your deep life playbook that you defined, internalize your own definitions of the 4 C's and then abide by those definitions ... then you can end each day knowing that you're living a "deep life" and hopefully gain some internal silence and gratitude!
Of course this is easier said than done :]