How Did Cal Newport Get Organized?

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Soso: My mamma's very organized. But i was not a very organized, structured kid. I would leave things until the last minute. It really wasn't until college, when i got serious about my academic career, that i began to get more systematic about organization. For whatever reason, i don't quite know why, i had a chip on my shoulder, you know, i just had the sense of, i think i have some talent. Soso from apparentin perspective, what this is telling me is you probably cannot engineer a child into being more organized, into being more driven. You can demonstrate it in your own life.

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