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Ep. 235: Is Productivity Overrated?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Is There a Relationship Between Productivity and Significant Achievement?

Some of the most accomplished people in all sorts of different fields are a mess when it comes to other aspects of their life. What those disorganized professors with the Turing Awards and MacArthur Genius grants were doing was that they were very good at workload management. There is not a very strong correlation between the organizational notion of productivity and significant accomplishment.

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