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Ep. 261: Control Your Time

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Importance of Enabling Boredom

A lot of superhero movies have been made for shorter attention spans. If your brain always has that experience, you are going to build up a Pavlovian response to boredom. So if on a regular basis, you expose yourself to some sort of long form concentrated experience where you maybe feel some boredom, but you don't give in, you're teaching your brain that's okay. The goal is not to be bored all the time; the goal is to be bored enough that it's familiar.

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