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Ep. 261: Control Your Time

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Mixed Blessing of Being an Intellectual Superstar

Physicists from that era will look back and say, I miss Los Alamos where at least all of this talent was being pushed towards a common goal. They were the intellectual equivalent of the freak athlete who at a very young age can do a standing jump over a car. It's these weird exceptional individuals, exceptional just in the peer sense of the word. And it is a weird burden to have.

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