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Ep. 101: Does Productivity Impede the Deep Life?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Optimize Dot Me Slash Deep - How to Decide When to Commit to a New Role

I'm a proponent of fixed schedule productivity, which is the idea that you fix the work schedule you want to have. Here's how much work i want to do on each day, and then you work backwards to say, o k, how do i make everything fit? I have some pretty clear thoughts about how much i want to work. The key is having to curse, is just jump in. That's what you need to do. If you're too quick to jump in, all in on anything that catches your interest, you're going to overload yourself too much on his plate. Ad you're going to miss the big ines because you are mired in the near misses....

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