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Ep. 142: LISTENER CALLS: Making Hard Work Routine

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Maximize the Value of the Work You're Producing

This fall i'm writing essentially a column for the new yorker. It's twice a month, every other week, putting out a piece that's somewhere between 15 hundred to three thousand words. I've come up with a system that has a multiple step so i basically have one week for finishing the last article at the copyeing,. et cetera, and doing the research for the next. And then one week for writing that article. This is when and how i do that work every week, these days, these times and this order. So i just have it figured out and it's automatic. And i blockd that time on my calendar, every other day of the

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