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Ep. 133: How Do I Defeat Distraction?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Boost Your Cognitive Capacity With Scheduling

Each one of those messages has to be noticed and onded to quickly, because all five or six of those messages have to happen in a pretty short window. So you have basically, with just this one meeting, yoar, scheduling completely subverted the cognitive capacity of two people for an entire afternoon. Now imagine your four or five meetings a any one time. Your scheduline meetings alone can be a massive drain, right? In other words, it's a sneakly, it's eak sneaky, impactful type of communication because it has this very rapid back and forth nature to it.

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