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Ep. 256: Start with Discipline

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Unsustainable Way to Live

"It's just working for the sake of working because of what's next," he says. "I think there's a comfort in this for very ambitious young people." The higher the knob you turn up on hours, the more successful you'll be, writes David Perry. But that's not the reality and we need to work with good focus rather than obsess over things which don't matter much at all.

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