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Ep. 127: Does Productivity Diminish Leisure? (with Brad Stulberg)

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Why Do We Work Too Much?

"We all do 20 % too much. And it's the 20 % of overhead that will most likely cause you to burn out and not produce the master work," he says. "Our work is so autonomous these days and so haphazard and so unstructured that we need some huristic to figure out how much is enough." 'You have to be overworking before you start saying no,' author adds.

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