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Ep. 65: Is Productivity Bad?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Get a High Seven Hundred on the GREs

i just did a bunch of g rees until i could get a high seven hundreds on my math score, and then, boom, i was ready. The underlying idea here is that the closer you can get your practice to the actual conditions of perform is often going to be the most effective. Once you have those strategies, you got just take em an under time pressure until you do well,. Then when you get to the g r e itself, you'll get i've done exactly this. I sit here, i take it. I know how long it takes. I know what it feels like. I know how to get the higher scores. So just work at it until it gets where...

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