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Ep. 144: LISTENER CALLS: Is Overload Necessary?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Weighing More Than You Can Ever Imagine Getting Done

The push model has become so ubiquitous we just assume this is what it means to work in a semi autonomius knowledge works. This, as i think we all have felt in our real life, is an approach that is not actually super compatible with the way the human brain functions. The human brain does not like having more obligations than it can easily understand how they're gongto be executed. So when you get too much stuff on your plate, too much stuff has been pushed on to your plate, the overhead cost alone eats up all your resources. It's weigh more than you can ever imagine getting done. We are not a piece of factory equipment, and our ortodo list is

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