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Ep. 117: Should I Quit My Job to Become a Writer?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Stress to Ambiguity in Open Loops

If you don't have your arms around just the logistical challenges of your current chaotic state of life, it's incredibly stressful. And it is very difficult to do almost anything else in that state of stress - we sometimes call facing a productivity dragon. But there is incredible stress to ambiguity in open loops. So at least we know what's happening. We know the plan. Is not open loops. It's not ambiguity. Its not, i know there's things that need to happen, n i don't know how it's going to happen. All right, step too, improved the situation. Now, you can't solve the situation, but you look for where the're things where i can

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