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Ep. 235: Is Productivity Overrated?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Do Less and Give Yourself More Breathing Room

If you are reducing what's on your plate by 20 to 30% so that you have much more flexibility on your deep work, I don't think the outside world will even notice. Separating highly efficient organization from accomplishment now allows us to play with things like workload. If you can pull that off, that's going to be the most sustainable answer. All right. What do we got for question number two?

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