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Ep. 259: The Four-Hour Work Day

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Slow Productivity Philosophy in Action

A final question is actually a case study this is something a listener sent in and it felt very relevant to the type of issues we've been talking about. Cal advised me to operate at the 30% level recharge my batteries, work on things that are interesting to me and make myself as scarce as I had been back when I was doing field work in Antarctica. So I like this idea of slowing down sometimes. Not everything should be full bore. Figuring out what's going on, getting reconnected with the things that really matter and seeing what decisions you might or might not make,. What course corrections you need to do that really thoughtfully. But for for this particular person, it made a

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