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Ep. 171: Is Slow Productivity the Solution to Burnout?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Overhead Spirale
When you have 700 unread messages in your n box and 75 different projects, tasks and ongoing commitments that you're trying to juggle it is too many things for that part of your brain to imagine how it's going to accomplish. This is tapped into our motivationa systems. We feel good when we make a plan. We feel bad if we don't. In modern work with chronic overload, where you always have more on your plate than you can ever get around the handling, this system gets completely overloaded. And now you are spending almost all your time talking about the work you need to do, with no time left to actually execute the work again. I think this is the knowledge worker
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