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DEEP WORK (CAL NEWPORT) - Listening books
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The Unexpected Truth About Willpower
The urge to turn your attention towards something more superficial can complicate efforts to concentrate on hard things. A 2012 study led by psychologists Wilhelm Hoffman and Roy Baumeister outfitted 205 adults with beepers that activated randomly selected times. The five most common desires these subjects fought include, not surprisingly, eating, sleeping, and sex.
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