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Ep. 15: Deep Work in Groups, Social Media in Politics, and Confronting Common Arguments Against My Work | DEEP QUESTIONS

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Is Attention Retardance From One Thing Helping Your Creativity?

Rituals can help you focus internally on abstract thoughts are ideas. A contemplative practice is often another really good ritual, because it puts your mind into a state of interiority at which point you are probably going to shift more easi into deep work. There'll be some residue from what you were thinking about during that contemplative session, but that residue will clear in ten minutes or fifteen minutes. And if it helped get you going, the benefits are worth it....

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