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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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How to Be a Top Thinker in Computer Science

Wright: I've experienced in my my own life. Sometimes you get the answers and say, oh, i don't think i want to do that. But that's really useful, you know. It all came down to reading other people's papers,. which is incredibly difficult in mathematical disciplines. You have to kind of solve bits of the proof on the fly. And it's an eight hour a day, six day a week type endeavor.

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