When Does Cal Newport Listen To Podcasts? | Deep Questions With Cal Newport

00:00:00.000 | All right.

00:00:01.000 | Quick question.

00:00:02.000 | Christine asks, when do you listen to podcast?

00:00:06.800 | For me, chores is a big one.

00:00:09.400 | Cleaning dishes, cleaning the house, mowing the yard.

00:00:13.600 | Great time to listen to either podcast or books on tape.

00:00:15.880 | I go back and forth.

00:00:16.880 | I treat those interchangeably.

00:00:18.880 | So driving will be another time I'll do that.

00:00:23.080 | The walk home from my kid's bus stop.

00:00:25.520 | So I take my older two boys to the bus stop in the morning, about 15 minutes away.

00:00:29.600 | So that walk home, I would consistently listen to things.

00:00:32.480 | And then sometimes I would add onto that walk.

00:00:35.560 | So I'd make it a little bit longer than 15 minutes on the way home.

00:00:38.240 | So that's when I'm listening to the podcast.

00:00:41.560 | Not all the time, but during times when my mind would otherwise be bored.

00:00:46.280 | The exception to that, of course, is listening to deep questions.

00:00:49.920 | That you want to listen to as soon as it comes out as many times as you can fit into your

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