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Ep. 55: Shallow Teams, Vague Goals, and Pandemic Screen Time

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Deep Work Mine Set

The deep work mine set is about putting your full cognitive resources on one problem at a time and not doing contact switching. The way you ply it to these positions that have many more things to do is the sequential mind set. One thing at a time, until you're at a breaking point or done, close all the open loops. Then the next thing. Do it as well as you can. Be it a five minute task or a five hour task, you will still get a lot more benefits....

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