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Ep. 107: How Do I Stay Motivated on Long-Term Projects?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Apply Deliberate Practice in Your Job

The key to deliberate practice is that you are stretching yourself past our comfortable with the skill in question. You want feed back to make sure that this stretch is literally pushing you in the right direction. The reason why you focus on one skill and then try to push yourself past whe you're comfortable, is what you're really doing is forcing a better configuration of neural circuits to fire....

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