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Ep. 259: The Four-Hour Work Day

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Slow Productivity Principle

CNN's John Sutter looks at the benefits of limiting your work hours. Author David Berkman found that by making writing a smaller part of his day, he looked forward to it more. The psychologist Robert Boyce said most productive writers were those who made writing only a modest part of their schedules rather than letting it dominate motivated to return to it day after day.

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