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Ep. 204: Deep Life Principles
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Power of Business and Exhaustion - The Principle of Slow Productivity
On any given day, hu does about three hours of focused work. He might think about a math problem, or prepare to lecture a class room ance and schedule a doctor's appointment for his two sons. Then i'm exhausted, he says, doing something that's valuable, meaningful, creative, or a task that he doesn't particularly want to do. And then i do the rest of the stuff later in the day. That principle is that business and exhaustion are often quite unrelated to producing valuable work.
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