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Ep. 222: Did Cavemen Use To-Do Lists?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Is This Good Enough?
"It can be psychologically difficult at some point to say, this is good enough. Let's move on," he says. "When you know what really matters, you don't sweat so much about the stuff that doesn't matter so much" If people learn a perfectionist approach will hurt their career prospects they'll obsess over it and not get things done in time for clients or professors' committees. Put your energy into the needle-moving activities instead of trying to blow away everything else with perfectionism.
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