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Ep. 256: Start with Discipline

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Zen Valedictorian Strategy

Jesse: I was a lone voice out there in the student stress debates. The students who are most stressed, if you came to them with your Ivy League diploma on the wall and said there's more to life than going to an Ivy League, they would 100% tune you out. "You have to recognize and accept people's ambitions," he says. He adds that this path of overloading yourself and just trying to grind it out is not very successful.

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