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Ep. 119: Does Accomplishment Require Overload?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Fast Versus Slow Productivity

productivity is trying to maximize the output for the given imputs you have available. What this looks like depends on the time scale we're talking about. Fast productivity really seems to work against our human nature. Slow productivity tends to a line much better with our human nature. It's seasonable on many different time scales. Like when you're working on something, you're very deep and lost ind what you're working on. But then you recover, and then maybe youre not king on it at all for the rest of the day.

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