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Ep. 247: The Productive Life (w/ Sarah Hart-Unger)

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Choose the Right Routines for Your Life

If you're not doing any, you're leaving a powerful weapon in the armory, right? And that's an issue. So it's almost like you want to have these slots written up on your wall. What do I want to draft? John is asking about trying to use this approach with chores outside of work and he says, the analogy kind of breaks down into: It's not as if three hours I spend doing yard work is three hours I could be earning $1,500 because if I wasn't working on Saturday, wouldn't be working anyways. We got a question from John. He'd like to calculate my implicit hourly rate determined if I should outsource a task instead

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