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Ep. 220: The Two Types of Ambition

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Reactive Subsequent to Reactive Proactive?

I'm going to give a two part answer here and I'm going to be terse because the second part of this answer is probably going to take you weeks of actual thinking to do right. The short term thing to try is I think this might be a good setup for a deep to shallow work ratio conversation with your manager. This, there's a short term solution. Try that. See how it helps. And that might be it. My long term solution? It's a perfect time to go through a serious lifestyle centric, career planning exercise where you really look at 40 and 50 as age targets. We have this really clear vision of all aspects of your life in an ideal world

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