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Ep. 39: DAVID EPSTEIN on Skills, Practice, and the Subtle Art of Cultivating a Meaningful Career

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Did You Go to Columbia Journalism School?

"I was intending to be a, i lived up in the arctic a studying arctic plant physiology. And and almost captured by pirates, if i understand correctly." "In fact, i was thfirst man over the plank," he says of don quixote's famous speech about student-soldier relationship. 'My research was getting so niche that it would be something that nobody else had taken on'

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