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Ep. 235: Is Productivity Overrated?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Getting Your House in Order

It requires some work to sort of think through, what am I working on and why? What are the projects I'm taking on? What is my workload? Is there something in here I just really hate? How do I re-engineer around that? All right. Let's not be so haphazard and just see if we're in the mood for it and what our mind says. You get these houses in order. And even then when you're in a hard part or a hard phase in work, you're much less likely to fall into let's go online all day.

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