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Ep. 256: Start with Discipline

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Study for 10 Hours a Day

There's a whole productivity YouTube where these YouTubers do these over the top. I think of it as a sort of nerd version of David Blaine productivity endurance challenges. So why not study for 10 hours a day? These are big names on YouTube. They seem like they're really good students. There's an extremeness to it, a sort of monastic discipline to all I do is study all day. And I guess my answer to the CS student would be to turn the question back on you and say to what end?

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