How to Make Your Workload Seasonal

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Jacob: I think it's completely fine if your workload is seasonal. You might just be getting exhausted, right? Like a professor by the time a professor gets to the end of spring, traditionally they're exhausted because they've gone through a full school year. To actually pull back some in the summer makes sense because you need to recharge. Jesse: When you get the sum months of the year, the amount of stuff you're putting to your week and the complexity of your daily time block schedules are much easier.

In Cal’s new “deep life stack” the first layer toward finding more meaning is to develop discipline. Why does this come first? In this episode, Cal dives deeper into the importance of starting with discipline.

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Today’s Deep Question: Why does cultivating the deep life start with discipline? [4:33]

- How do I stop falling off the productivity wagon? [26:38]

- How do I cultivate more consistent discipline? [32:35]

- How do I convince myself to follow through on demanding projects? [41:22]

- What’s the problem with studying for 10 hours a day? [54:37]

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