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Ep. 194: The Surprising Math of Doing Less

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Positive Impacts of Doing Too Much

If value increases nonlinearly with time spent, your best strategy is to put as much time as possible on the fewest number of things. That's just pure mathematics. But what this all comes down to is that if you have less things on your plate, you can spend more times on the things that remain. So i'm a huge believer in doing fewer things at an slower pace and obsessing over quality rather than quantity. This philosophy has three main tenents: slow productivity, do fewer things but better quality,. And it actually makes us happier - which means we are able to produce morevalue.

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