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Ep. 199: Quieting an Ambitious Brain

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Shut Down Rituals on Trips

If you're going on a trip, bring something to do. It shouldn't be something that involves you having to do work communication or email. I would often bring, especially pre ten year, a math problem i'm trying to solve. And at least one session every day where i'm working on some sort of long term, non urgent, but intellectually demanding project. If you have a high innursia mind, you need these rituals. Otherwise your mind will spiral off into work related thoughts at night.

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