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Ep. 259: The Four-Hour Work Day
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Sisyphian Mindset of Overwork
There's always another day, there's always more work to be done. If you have way more work than you can actually stay on top of in this much time, that's back pressure. Back pressure says, I'm going to take some more things off of my plate. So the back pressure of your artificial workload means really determines what your workload is like. When we're pruning back this stuff, we're working more efficiently and more deeply on the stuff that does matter most.
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