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Ep. 219: The Deep Reset

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Is Quantification Important in the Moment?

The whole quantified self was an offshoot of the productivity pran movement, where we're going to quantify every element of our life. In the end, it was a fun hobby to do all these tools and do all these tracking, but it didn't necessarily make a huge difference. "I feel like our brains are really good at analyzing ourselves," he says.

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