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Ep. 107: How Do I Stay Motivated on Long-Term Projects?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Get Rid of Boredom

Boredom feel really disagreeable. Things that feel physiologically speaking, very disagreeable have a good reason for generating that feeling. This is just evolution. So the fact that boredom feels really bad means it's probably a state that we need to be revelling in and spending long periods of time in. Any more so than we shouldn't live our life constantly hungry or seek out the feeling of being thirsty....

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