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Ep. 183: Crazy or Deep?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How Do You Move Through Your Career?

The best way scott and i could figure out to design practice activities is to suggest that you commit yourself to a project carefully designed to require you to stretch your ability on the skill in question. Skilled improvement seems to be the best we ended up at some point completely redoing that top o former course, to be built completely around a project you fy and try to work on. It was too hard to improve these skills in the abstract. You need a public commitment to this project. So you've told your boss. They're expecting it. Someone's waiting for it. If it's bad, they'll be upset. That's going to push you.

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