The Derek Loudermilk Show

"The output of Deep Work is uniquely human"- Cal Newport
I'm excited to have Cal Newport back on the show today! He was a guest in episode 42 talking about his book -So Good They Canâ€t Ignore You.
Today we are talking about Calâ€s newest book and his theory of Deep Work - highly concentrated uninterrupted work that is becoming more rare and more valuable - providing those that can do this work with a prized economic commodity.
Cal takes us through how Deep Work increases productivity and learning, puts you in flow, and makes your more productive.
Throughout the episode, Cal gives us practical advice on how to structure our life to do more Deep Work, and how to learn the skills needed to do better Deep Work.
As usual, Cal has some surprising insights that go against conventional wisdom - see if you can spot things that you are doing that can disrupt deep work.
So if you want to maximize your work output, feel more satisfied, be more productive and more valuable, this is the episode for you!
What you will learn:
-What is Deep Work
-Why Deep work is so rare and valuable
-How to keep your work life meaningful
-How to train yourself to concentrate better
-WHy you should embrace boredom
-Why social media kills deep work
-Why you should have a work shutdown routine
-How to structure you life to do more Deep Work
-Why Deep Work is a skill and not a habit

Quotes:
"Deep Work is intimately connected to deliberate practice" - Cal Newport
"Learning complicated thing quickly is extremely valuable"- Cal Newport
"If no Deep Work is required of you, you should be nervous"- Cal Newport
"The output of Deep Work is uniquely human"- Cal Newport
"Deep Work can often push you into a flow state"- Cal Newport
"You have to be worried about cognitive junk food"- Cal Newport
"What are the small number of things that can make the most difference in your career?"- Cal Newport
Continue the Adventure (Resources from this episode):
CalNewport.com


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Sometime I can't believe Billionaires will go on a podcast with a shirtless guy on the cover...
We
are celebrating Episode 300!
When I first started this podcast, I said I was going to make 300 episodes. Now, it has been about six years, and I can hardly believe that it's finally here!
What I have Learned From 300 Episodes
My
identity and the identity of this podcast have been intertwined when I first
came up with the name, The Art of Adventure. It started with the blog. I
talked about it with people and they started associating me as "Mr.
Adventure". That forced me to become more adventurous.
This
show has evolved and progressed. Back when I started, I was trying to learn how
to travel the world, live abroad, and earn a living- basically live a life
of adventure. The podcast started with me, interviewing my friends, and
eventually developed a cohesive model and created a well-defined show with
guests who talk about adventure, metaphysics, peak performance, and business.
In
the beginning, I did not really know how to interview, how to produce a
podcast, and how to find the right guest. I had to learn as I went. If
you track the changes in the world and the changes in my life, and you overlay
that on the podcast, there are all these different phases of life that I
experienced while we had this continuity of a podcast through 300 episodes. You
might be able to see where I'm coming from as the host, in what questions I ask,
and the kind of guests I'm bringing on the show.
What
is cool is that I don't really know what I'd get from these podcasts. I have
taken so many ideas from guests. I am now a business coach, because of the
influence I had from a guest. From a cycling coach, to a podcast coach, I
finally decided on expanding to be a business coach. A guest also suggested
that I turn the ideas I get from the podcast and turn them into a book, which,
eventually became the Superconductors. Right now, I am working on a book with
adventure stories, taking some of the greatest and wildest adventure stories
from the podcast. I have grown my Instagram account from ideas I got from
guests, too. I also learned to ask more and more audacious things and make
"unreasonable requests" in asking for big things.
These
guests have brought so many ideas that I have incorporated in my life, travels,
business, family, and relationships. It has been such an amazing access point,
as the host. I hope it has been as well, for you, because when you apply these
ideas, such big and dramatic things happen for you and your life. The really
important part is that you don't have to get it perfect, but you do need
to go and try it. You can learn these concepts, but until you go and
try using them, you don't really know the knowledge, or understand how
everything works.
Right
until you go through the experience, you can't ever know what it's like until
you do it.
Now
I can say, I'm a podcaster and I’m not planning on stopping. This is one of the
best parts of my business and of my life. I am motivated to continue improving
the show and getting these guests on. I want to take this a step further and
look at what kind of collaborations and win-win scenarios I can create with my
guests. Most of my guests have some mission trying to make the world a better
place in their own unique way. If we approach with the idea of how can we
co-create together and look at creating win-win scenarios, then I think that is

"I seek out people who inspire me" - Jeremy Moon When I first arrived in New Zealand last month I did a quick informal survey of my Kiwi friends about who the most interesting people in NZ were that I should have on the show. The one name that came up most frequently is today's guest! Jeremy Moon is the founder of Icebreaker , a New Zealand based merino wool clothing company started in 1994, which now sells clothing in over 4700 stores world wide. The New Zealand Herald named Jeremy as one of the country's top business leaders, and Icebreaker has been the subject of two Harvard Business School case studies. Today, we are going to get into the early development of the business, including how Jeremy used word of mouth marketing and generated hype among the New Zealand outdoor gear retailers. We will also get into the initial business and financial structure, and why merino works as a good product in the first place. Icebreaker is also known for it's Baacode, an innovation that allows you to track which wool station (farm) in New Zealand your garment came from, so you can see the living conditions of the animals. When I surveyed my Kiwi friends before the interview about what they wanted to know about Icebreaker, they all said sustainability, so I asked Jeremy to discuss the importance of environmental impacts, social ethics, manufacturing ethics, and animal welfare. This is a fabulous story of seeing a great market opportunity, and steadily growing a business to be the widely acclaimed, sustainable, international brand it is today. Quotes: "Icebreaker is a symbol of how we feel" - Jeremy Moon "I've never not had people who are actively shaping my world view" - Jeremy Moon "The world wasn't looking for wool" - Jeremy Moon "Don't do business with people you don't like" - Jeremy Moon "I'm good at asking the right questions and getting people to help" - Jeremy Moon "I seek out people who inspire me" - Jeremy Moon "Adventure is the same as innovation - seeking New + Better" - Jeremy Moon "Adventure teaches you something to be a better person" - Jeremy Moon "Adventure reminds you what it is like to be a human being" - Jeremy Moon "We are on a quest to find our inner truth, and business is a great opportunity to do that" - Jeremy Moon "Icebreaker is the story of what New Zealand is known for: nature, adventure, and sheep, told in a fresh way"- Jeremy Moon What you will learn in this episode: -The key traits of a successful founder -How word of mouth marketing helped grow icebreaker to 45 countries -How Jeremy decided to found Icebreaker -The keys to ethical manufacturing and social policies -How to be transparent about your business process -How clothing effects the electrochemistry of the human body -How merino wool works as an ideal clothing fiber -How to surround yourself with the right people to inspire and teach you -How travel influenced Jeremy's business development Continue the adventure: JeremyMoon.me Icebreaker Deepak Chopra Sir Peter James Blake, one of Jeremy's heroes, won the America's cup for New Zealand, and wore a prototype Icebreaker top and leggings for 40 days and nights in a row while setting a world circumnavigation record. Thanks Jeremy Moon! If you enjoyed this session of The Art of Adventure Podcast, let Jeremy know by clicking on the link below and sending him a quick shout out on Twitter: Click here to thank Jeremy via Icebreaker on Twitter! Support the Art of Adventure! This podcast is supported by listeners like you! Become a patron of the Art of Adventure on Patreon Subscribe to The Art of Adventure Podcast for free in iTunes or Stitcher. If you enjoyed the show, please help us by leaving a 5-star rating and review! You might also like these episodes: AOA 044 | Aaron Hurst | The Purpose Economy AOA 024 | Rachel Faller | Environmentally and Socially Responsible Fashion

Today’s
episode of the Five-Minute Friday is for those who are trying to do something
big and exciting in the world.
Often, I encounter people who are running in to fear when they are deciding to do something big. When they commit to do a project, fear sets in. It could either be the fear of success or the fear of failure.
People
try to get past that fear, but they end up staying in a stagnant place. They
keep thinking as to how things would go wrong or how they are not up to the
task. They get into a thought loop which creates an emotion that tells them,
they are not good enough. As a result, they are focusing their brain to wire in
to worry, anxiety, and fear. Along with it comes negative emotions. These emotions
are not meant to be carried and dwelled on, they are only meant to be
experienced and felt.
If
you are focusing on the fear, on what is not going to work, then you are not
focusing on finding solutions. You are not making the things that you want to
happen, happen.
This
is no different for me. I get in to fear and sometimes, I have to really trust
in my own ability to make something happen. That is hard. That takes bravery
and courage. Courage doesn't happen when you know all the answers, or when you
are completely capable. The practice of courage and the practice of bravery
happens when you are scared, when you are not convinced of your abilities yet.
But
most of us are operating from a place where we look back in our past. Because
we have never done something like that in the past, we think that we are not
the type of person who could do it. But, as soon as you do it, you are the
type of person to do that! So, you must work ahead, you have to work
from a place of the person who has already done that!
Let
us take running the marathon, for example.
If
you have never ran a marathon, you have no idea what it is like. But if you do
it, you do it! You become the type of person who could do it. It is this
continuous practice of growing into the person that you are going to be. If
from the start, you operate from what you were able to do from the past, that
past will hold you back. Operate from who you are going to be in the future.
Think back to where you were ten years ago and the things that you learned, the
skills, the ways you have improved, your ways of thinking, and just how many
more abilities and things can you do in life now, comparing to ten years ago.
Imagine
your future self and all the amazing things that you'll be able to do! Work
from that place of your future self.
So,
if it is fear of success, it serves a purpose. Your fear serves its purpose.
It keeps us safe. Your brain is wired to keep us safe.
First,
you can just thank your brain for trying to keep you safe and then turn your
attention elsewhere, so you don't have to be focusing on the fear itself. A lot
of us get in to fear because we have not fully assessed whether the risk is
worth it and that is something that you can just do. Write it down, list the
possible outcomes, and ask yourself if that is what you really want to do, is
it what you want to create in this world, is it in alignment with your values,
and is it in alignment with what you want your life to look like. Determine
that fullest realization and goodness of the possibility or the worst that
could happen. Is the risk worth the gain?
Stop
thinking, stop worrying, trust yourself,

Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is the New York Times bestselling author and national award-winning journalist, Alex Hutchinson. Alex primarily focuses on endurance and fitness. In fact, his latest book, ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, explores the science of endurance.
Alex
began his career as a physicist, with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge,
and worked for the U.S. National Security Agency. He is a two-time finalist in
the 1500-meters in the Canadian Olympic trails. While at the NSA, he also
trained and competed as a middle- and long-distance runner for the Canadian
national team.
In this episode, Alex talks about the limits of endurance and human performance, and how he spent years researching about this project. He breaks it down so well, you can go and test every variable that he is talking about. Whether or not you’re a runner, listening to this episode will pique your interest about your limits and how to defy it.
What
you’ll learn in this episode:
* Understanding the limits of endurance* How Alex defines endurance* How zapping your brain with electricity helps endurance* Aging and endurance* How deception in workouts can expand possibilities* How endurance applies to parenting and entrepreneurship, among others* What Alex did during his decade-long research for his project on endurance* What Alex wants to do next after his bestselling book and other insights on his life and career
Quotes:
"Pain might just be confirmation you are doing something hard" - Alex Hutchinson
"I'm willing to talk to scientists - I don't shy away from complexity in my writing" - Alex Hutchinson
Continue
the Adventure:
Alex Hutchinson
Twitter:
@sweatscience
ENDURE: Mind, Body,
and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
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