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Ep. 204: Deep Life Principles

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How Can I Brainwash My Little Brother to Make Him Not Follow His Passion?

Soronolio: How can i brain wash my little brother to make him not follow his passion? My concern is that he falls in the follow your passion trap and chooses a worthless degree. I call this deep procrastination, when students essentially lost the motivational ability to do school work. The way out of that is to have intrinsic motivation behind the choice of what you study. And even if you're not going to get full deepprocrastination, it really can make the same factors can make academic life at chource.

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