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Ep. 104: LISTENER CALLS: Saying "No" Without Saying "No"

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Anxiety Producing Emales - How to Reduce the Asymmetry

i'm going to give you a strategy for both types of anxiety producing emales that you mention, which i think will help you get to the effect of the responses that you want to give. So let' start with the first type of emale from colleagues who are ask you to answer a quoteqt, quick question. It took them about nineteen seconds to write that question and hit send. It's going to take you about an hour to answer it. One strategy here is to reduce the a symmetry. But the idea here is, by shifting things so that the question asker now has to actually do more work, you are actually going to have probably the majority of those questions more or

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