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Ep. 65: Is Productivity Bad?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Productivity and the Protestant Work Ethic

i think the public facing books wil it will point to things like the protestant work ethic and a or maybe more contemporarily, sort of twitter and incstogram,. humble brag culture about how much you're working right if you can be more contemporary. And one of the reasons why we find ourselves overworking and embracing productivity is it we're basically being tricked by malformed cultures in the doing too much. We have these cultures that kind of trick us into valorizing, trying to get a lot of things done. These cultures serve other purposes....

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