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Ep. 194: The Surprising Math of Doing Less

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Your Brain Is Not Dumb. That's What You Do

If your mind doesn't believe that it's worth doing, you will still struggle with discipline. The biggest problem people have with long term planning is trying to actually do too much of the planning up front. Luke: There is a feedback loop approach to planning out, structuring and executing longer projects. Jesse: You don't get a gold medal for gasine how long a hard project is going to take. We got a question from luke. Could you please work through an example where you break down a genuinely complicated long term goal through quarterly, weekly and daily planning?

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