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Ep. 95: How Do I Maintain the Will to Do Deep Work?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Reverse Office Hours

If you cannot unilaterly put in place office hours, and what you should do is reverse office hours. This is where you individually and privately schedule a couple blocks each day, relatively short, for answering other people's questions. You can check your slack channels once a day to see what's been posted that might be relevant and any opportunities or interesting infor ation. Check it once a day. Finally, hereis mymy recommendation: Being seen be so good they can't ignore you produce really good work by not doing a cognitive context shift once every five minutes.

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