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Ep. 166: LISTENER CALLS: The Deep Life vs. The Good Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Gatekeeper Fallacy

The gatekeeper fallacy says there's a large space of books that could be very successful, but only a pretty narrow band of them actually get published. The main obstacle is typically a either the idea is just not right under any circumstance, or you're not the right person or in the right situation write it. So those are the three things you need. And so typically it's just lacking one of those three things to prevent a book from getting bought, right? The ideais hazy. You got four or five different ideas going on. Or maybe you have a cool idea where you have no clue how to focus it and put it into action. It's almost certainly your its very unlikely

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