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Ep. 168: Should I Quit My Law Partner Job?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Problem Isn't Time Blocking

When you get back from vacation, those type of schedules don't work. Meetings pop up your week after vacation s a lot of people need you. What i'm going to suggest is that you introduce the idea that now there's other types of time blocks. You're like, i spend two hours every morningt with a block that just says, wrangling. I can it just wrangling all this different stuff that's coming up and down, trying to keep track of it or whatever. Or let's tlike a lot of adhawk. And put aside a whole day to do that one block. That'sa successfully time block day. It's facing the productivity dragon in

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