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Ep. 164: LISTENER CALLS: Training for Hard Intellectual Work
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
How to Do Hard, Intellectual Work
If you want to do hard, intellectual work, you have to get that brain into shape. Your mind is a muscle that to be trained. So what can you do to train it? And this is coming from my book, deep work. Partially, it's about what you take away from your life. If you are constantly dist acted, or at least for large parts of your day, if you're constantly looking at a screen, at the slightest hint of boredom, you are getting out of intellectual shape.
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