Cal Newport

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1,088 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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The Liz Moody Podcast · How To Work Less This Summer (And Still Get MORE Done) · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Like, what do I deserve?

Instead, you need to flip that around and be saying, how could I be better at this job?

How could I prove that I'm valuable to the world?

How can I build up a skill as quickly as possible?

Because it's that skill, that accumulation of career capital

That four or five years down the line is going to start giving you some real interesting options about how you shape your work life.

I think too often we skip that step.

And we just think about like there's a flat collection landscape of possible jobs with different properties.

And it's just about finding the one that matches you well, that has all the stuff you want, and then you'll be happy.

No, it's a mountain.

And as you move up the mountain, the jobs get more interesting and you get more control and you get more options about what your work life works like.

So when you're young and have time and energy, you need to start getting as high as possible early on, get past those base camps so that, you know, as you get a little bit older, now you have some interesting options.

Well, I can do this part time.

You keep asking, how can I be more valuable?

How can I be more valuable?

That becomes the mantra.

When you get a little bit older, you need to start asking, how can I take my value out for a spin?

Am I leveraging my value to take control of what my working life is like?

Am I in the driver's seat of my professional existence?

I call it the control trap.

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