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Ep. 91: GREG MCKEOWN on Making Essential Work Effortless

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Hard Work Versus Hard to Do Work

Ik, how does suffering serve us? What if the important work that's going to take your concentration could also be enjoyable? Something you look forward to, something you've constructed that works well in than go ahead and do it. And i'm just remembering, before i coined a term, deep work, i was using the phrase hard focus. And i didn't like it for exactly that reason. Rihts like it sounds like hard work. It sounds like hard to do. I mean, i want my children to know how to work hard, of course i do. But i don't want all the toxic stuff that says, wher, you have to be burned out all the

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