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Ep. 55: Shallow Teams, Vague Goals, and Pandemic Screen Time

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Video Game Concentration - How Can I Be as Concentrated as Video Games Create?

Pavlo asks, how can i be as concentrated as i get while playing video games? Pavlo: Concentration is like the cocaine hih. It's its own weird, artificial thing. And you're just not going to get there with cale or exercise d and you shouldn't try. I would point you towards the book irresistible by adam alter. He gets into this lot in that book,. How video game companies have really put so much attention into making their video games irresistible By essentially jacking the way our brain works. So do not use that level of rapt, obsessed attention that video games can create. Do not use that as your milestone of what you want to achieve when...

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